The Big Heat
Noir doesn’t get any more hard-boiled than this scorching tale of vice and retribution, a film that finds director Fritz Lang working at the peak of his Hollywood style—stripped to the bone, simmering with outrage, and fatalistic to the core. A tightly wound Glenn Ford stars as a homicide detective whose investigation into a sprawling crime syndicate becomes a shockingly personal, hate-fueled quest for revenge. Costarring an iconic Gloria Grahame as the mink-coated gangster’s moll with her own axe to grind, and featuring a supporting cast led by a sensationally sleazy Lee Marvin, The Big Heat hits with raw, unstoppable force.
4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
- New audio commentary by film-noir experts Alain Silver and James Ursini
- New video essay by critic Farran Smith Nehme on the women in the film
- Audio interviews with director Fritz Lang, conducted by film historian Gideon Bachmann and filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich
- Interviews with filmmakers Michael Mann and Martin Scorsese
- Trailer
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: An essay by author Jonathan Lethem
New cover by Drusilla Adeline/Sister Hyde
4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
- New audio commentary by film-noir experts Alain Silver and James Ursini
- New video essay by critic Farran Smith Nehme on the women in the film
- Audio interviews with director Fritz Lang, conducted by film historian Gideon Bachmann and filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich
- Interviews with filmmakers Michael Mann and Martin Scorsese
- Trailer
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: An essay by author Jonathan Lethem
New cover by Drusilla Adeline/Sister Hyde
Cast
- Glenn Ford
- Sergeant Dave Bannion
- Gloria Grahame
- Debby Marsh
- Jocelyn Brando
- Katie Bannion
- Alexander Scourby
- Mike Lagana
- Lee Marvin
- Vince Stone
- Jeanette Nolan
- Bertha Duncan
- Peter Whitney
- Tierney
- Willis Bouchey
- Lieutenant Ted Wilks
- Robert Burton
- Gus Burke
- Adam Williams
- Larry Gordon
- Howard Wendell
- Commissioner Higgins
- Chris Alcaide
- George Rose
- Michael Granger
- Hugo
- Dorothy Green
- Lucy Chapman
- Carolyn Jones
- Doris
- Edith Evanson
- Selma Parker
Credits
- Director
- Fritz Lang
- Produced by
- Robert Arthur
- Screenplay by
- Sydney Boehm
- Based on the Saturday Evening Post serial by
- William P. McGivern
- Director of photography
- Charles Lang Jr.
- Editor
- Charles Nelson
- Art director
- Robert Peterson
- Set decorator
- William Kiernan
- Assistant director
- Milton Feldman
- Makeup
- Clay Campbell
- Sound engineer
- George Cooper
- Musical director
- Mischa Bakaleinikoff
- Hair stylist
- Helen Hunt
- Gowns by
- Jean Louis
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A scene from The Big Heat
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