Cornel Wilde

Jean Wallace

Brian Donlevy

Richard Conte

Lee Van Cleef

Earl Holliman

Robert Middleton

Helen Walker

Jay Adler

John Hoyt

Ted de Corsia

Helene Stanton

Roy Gordon

Baynes Barron

James McCallion

Tony Michaels

Rita Gould

Bruce Sharpe

Michael Mark

Donna Drew

Brian O'Hara

Steve Mitchell

Joseph H. Lewis

Philip Yordan

John Alton

Robert S. Eisen

Sidney Harmon

Carla Hadley

Walter Mirisch

Rudi Feld

Earl Snyder

Larry Butterworth

Don Loper

David Raksin

Drama

Crime

The Big Combo

Security Pictures

Theodora Productions

Allied Artists Pictures

United States of America

CinemaSerf

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.

English

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