Iconic two-fisted film noir starring Glenn Ford as a renegade cop out for revenge. This tightly paced scorcher set the template for countless crime dramas to follow, with great supporting work from Lee Marvin as a sadistic mob lieutenant, and Gloria Grahame as the gangster's moll who gets burned. Keeps the pressure building throughout, with surprising emotional overtones as it nears the finale. Enough said. If you don't like The Big Heat, you can "turn in your badge and your gun!"

A great Noir movie. The same actor from “Gilda”. Someone gets coffee thrown in their face. Great acting. Fritz Lang is a famous director, he also made “Metropolis”. Overall a nice film.

Well done but something missing. Fell asleep halfway through so can't pinpoint problem area. (Maybe Glenn Ford lack of range?) Early Lee Marvin always impress though.

A very enjoyable movie, the second recent that I have seen with Glen Ford. He was excellent in both. I used to think I didnt care for his movies but that has changed.

Standard detective v crime Gand shtick but done tidily and at a good pace. An enjoyable crime thriller from yesteryear. Watched on SKY Cinema.

Solid noir, but it could've been a lot better and more suspenseful.

Very good for the time it came out. If you like classic noir this is a must.

One of the great ones!

On first viewing, I never expected this 1950s noir thriller to be so tough and brutal! Absolutely fantastic!

Really fun crime noir. Glenn Ford is better than I thought.

Proto-Dirty Harry and proto-antihero encapsulated in a classic noir.

One of Fritz Lang‘s (The Tiger of Eschnapur, Die Nibelungen: Siegfried) last movies and it's a enjoyable mix of Noir cliches

Fritz Lang's outstanding film noir sees Glenn Ford crusading against mob-led civic corruption, and seeking vengeance. Lang was ahead of his time with most of his work, and The Big Heat is no different, the huge influence on latter work like Goodfellas (1990), or even something like Eastern Promises (2007) is clear for all to see. The genius of Lang however, is that he manages to pull off an enormously satisfying mob thriller and wrap it all up in just 85 minutes. A classic of the highest order.

Decent noir flick from Lang depicting an honest cop attempting, at great costs, to uncover the truth about a fellow officer's death while facing resistance from all sides and corners. Ford does well as the protagonist and Lee Marvin is wonderfully awful as one of the toughs.

A good Film Noir with crime and suspense.

"Turn in your badge and gun." *snaps photo of this cultural landmark* Fritz Lang tosses out the conventional mystery elements many consider integral to the noir genre to instead focus on a one-man crusade from Ford to combat corruption and seek revenge after sticking his nose where he shouldn't have. Dripping with classic dialogue and features that would come to be considered tropes in the action genre, The Big Heat is surprisingly brutal for its time without resorting to expolitative narrative, and still retaining psychological and social themes beneath the surface. Lang delivers a portrait of crime as a social disease, refusing to inject the romanticism that others had already begun adding on to their underworld subjects; it's morally bankrupt and relentless, and all that touch it end up tainted. Scourby is technically the big bad, but it's the sadistic, streetwise Vince Stone (played by a shockingly young Lee Marvin) and Nolan's Bertha Duncan, a remorseless collaborator on the dole, that steal the show as the true forces to be reckoned with. Plenty of darkened rooms, shadows cast by window blinds, and shallowly disguised threats followed up with fists, all brought together expertly under Lang's still-solid direction. Dave Bannion may not be the first name that comes to mind when considering defining film characters of the genre, but much of his design has been co-opted or adapted to a massive range of subsequent projects. (4/5)

Great movie worth a watch!

One of the quintessential noir films of its time, embracing all the archetypical elements of the genre.

FRITZ LANG! directed, in 55! LEE MARVIN. GLORIA GRAHAM. Never saw before the MOVIE Chanel7=5=2020

Weak story made watchable by a young cool Lee Marvin and the always wonderful Gloria Grahame.