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Author:

Big heat (Motion picture)

Title:

The big heat / Columbia Pictures Corporation presents ; screenplay by Sydney Boehm ; produced by Robert Arthur ; directed by Fritz Lang.

Edition:

Indicator blu-ray edition.

Publisher:

Powerhouse Films Ltd.,

Copyright Date:

2020

Description:

1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.

Subject:

McGivern, William P.--Film adaptations.
Revenge--Drama.
Police--Drama.
Ex-police officers--Drama.
Gangsters--Drama.
Film noir.
Gangster films.
Film adaptations.
Fiction films.
Feature films.
Detective and mystery films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Other Authors:

Columbia Pictures Corporation, production company.
Powerhouse Films Ltd., distributor. distributor.
Lang, Fritz, 1890-1976, director.
Arthur, Robert, 1909-1986, producer.
Boehm, Sydney, screenwriter.
Ford, Glenn, 1916-2006, actor.
Grahame, Gloria, actor.
Brando, Jocelyn, 1919-2005, actor.
McGivern, William P., author.

Notes:

Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Jocelyn Brando, Alexander Scourby, Lee Marvin, Jeanette Nolan. Based on the Saturday Evening Post serial by William P. McGivern. Originally released as motion picture in 1953. Special features: High Definition remaster; Original mono audio; Audio commentary by film historians Lem Dobbs, Julie Kirgo and Nick Redman; Tony Rayns on Fritz Lang and 'The Big Heat' (2017, 34 mins): a newly filmed appreciation and analysis by the film historian; Martin Scorsese on The Big Heat (2009, 6 mins); Michael Mann on The Big Heat (2009, 11 mins); Isolated score: experience Henry Vars' original soundtrack music; Original theatrical trailer; Image gallery: on-set and promotional photography.

Summary:

A former policeman sacrifices everything to take down a mobster and his henchman after his wife is killed.

Series:

Indicator ; 016

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1262337925

EAN:

5060697920758

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)