The Big Combo(1955)
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.
Movie: The Big Combo
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Leonard Diamond
Susan Lowell
Joe McClure
Mr. Brown
Fante
Mingo
Police Capt. Peterson
Alicia Brown
Detective Sam Hill
Nils Dreyer
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