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The Big Combo(1955)
Status: Released
Date: 1955-02-13
70%
152 Votes
Time: 1h 28m
The Most Startling Story The Screen Has Ever Dared Reveal!
Overview:
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.
Languages: English.
Countries:
United States of America
ProductionCompanies:
Security Pictures
Theodora Productions
Allied Artists Pictures
Movie: The Big Combo
Top 10 Billed Cast
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
John Hoyt
Nils Dreyer
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