1955 · noir · crime · thriller
The Big Combo
Directed by Joseph H. Lewis1h 28m1955
Police Lt. Leonard Diamond vies to bring a clever, well connected, and sadistic gangster to justice all the while obsessing over the gangster's girlfriend.
Our read: The Big Combo (1955) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded noir · crime · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, extreme noir / crime, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
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