The Big Combo
"The Most Startling Story The Screen Has Ever Dared Reveal!"
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.
"The Most Startling Story The Screen Has Ever Dared Reveal!"
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.
Cornel Wilde
Leonard Diamond
Jean Wallace
Susan Lowell
Brian Donlevy
Joe McClure
Richard Conte
Mr. Brown
Lee Van Cleef
Fante
Earl Holliman
Mingo
Robert Middleton
Police Capt. Peterson
Helen Walker
Alicia Brown
Jay Adler
Detective Sam Hill
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.
Cornel Wilde is quite good as the detective charged with investigating a local crime boss (Richard Conte) who thus far has proved a bit Teflon. After a few years of this relentless pursuit, he has managed to fall for the hoodlum's lady (Susan Wallace) and his captain deduces that he has become too close to remain objective and so the case is to be stopped. That all changes when Conte's thugs accidentally kill the woman (instead of him) and it all becomes truly personal! It's a well directed, pacy and, at times, suspenseful crime drama from the pen of Philip Yordan that could perhaps have been just ten minutes shorter to tighten it up.
A prisoner leads his counterparts in a protest for better living conditions which turns violent and ugly.
New York City Police detective Joe Leland investigates the grisly murder of Teddy Leikman, the gay son of a politically influential department store owner. While investigating, he discovers links to official corruption in NYC in this drama that delves into a world of sex and drugs, homophobia, homosexuality and bisexuality.
A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he's investigating.
Pursued by the big-time gambler he robbed, John Muller assumes a new identity—with unfortunate results.
เดวีย์ กอร์ดอน นักมวยชาวนิวยอร์กที่กำลังจะหมดสัญญาอาชีพ ตกหลุมรักกลอเรีย ไพรซ์ นักเต้น แต่ความสัมพันธ์ที่กำลังเบ่งบานของพวกเขากลับต้องสะดุดลงเมื่อวินเซนต์ ราปัลโล เจ้านายจอมรุนแรงของกลอเรีย ผู้มีสายตาจับจ้องกลอเรีย ทั้งสองตัดสินใจหนีออกจากเมือง แต่ก่อนที่พวกเขาจะทำได้ วินเซนต์และพวกอันธพาลก็ลักพาตัวกลอเรียไป และเดวีย์ถูกบังคับให้ออกตามหาเธอในมุมที่เสื่อมโทรมที่สุดของเมือง โดยมีศัตรูซ่อนตัวอยู่ในเงามืด
New York City newspaper The Day is in trouble. Even though editor Ed Hutcheson has worked hard running the paper, its circulation has been steadily declining. Now the publisher's widow wants to sell the paper, which will most likely mean its end. Hutcheson's only hope is to finish his exposé on a dangerous gangster before the sale is finalized.
In New York City, an insolent pickpocket, Skip McCoy, inadvertently sets off a chain of events when he targets ex-prostitute Candy and steals her wallet. Unaware that she has been making deliveries of highly classified information to the communists, Candy, who has been trailed by FBI agents for months in hopes of nabbing the spy ringleader, is sent by her ex-boyfriend, Joey, to find Skip and retrieve the valuable microfilm he now holds.
After two gang-related killings in "Center City," a suspect (who was framed) is arrested, released on bail...and murdered. Inspector Briggs of the FBI recruits a young agent, Gene Cordell, to go undercover in the shadowy Skid Row area (alias George Manly) as a potential victim of the same racket. Soon, Gene meets Alec Stiles, neurotic mastermind who's "building an organization along scientific lines." Stiles recruits Cordell, whose job becomes a lot more dangerous.
A hugely successful DA goes into private practice after sending a man to the chair -- only to find out later he was innocent. Now the drunken attorney only seems to represent criminals and low lifes.
An ex-con trying to go clean ends up working for a crooked trucking company swindling money.