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The Big Heat - The Criterion Collection

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Genres: Crime, Drama
Starring: Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Lee Marvin
Director: Fritz Lang
Plot Sypnosis:

Noir doesn’t get any more hard-boiled than this scorching tale of vice and retribution, a film that finds director Fritz Lang working at the peak of his Hollywood style—stripped to the bone, simmering with outrage, and fatalistic to the core. A tightly wound Glenn Ford stars as a homicide detective whose investigation into a sprawling crime syndicate becomes a shockingly personal, hate-fueled quest for revenge. Costarring an iconic Gloria Grahame as the mink-coated gangster’s moll with her own axe to grind, and featuring a supporting cast led by a sensationally sleazy Lee Marvin, The Big Heat hits with raw, unstoppable force.

BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

  • New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
  • New audio commentary by film-noir experts Alain Silver and James Ursini
  • New video essay by critic Farran Smith Nehme on the women in the film
  • Audio interviews with director Fritz Lang, conducted by film historian Gideon Bachmann and filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich
  • Interviews with filmmakers Michael Mann and Martin Scorsese
  • Trailer
  • English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
  • PLUS: An essay by author Jonathan Lethem

    New cover by Drusilla Adeline/Sister Hyde
Release Details

Movie Release Year: 1953
Tech Specs & Release Details

Length: 89
Specs: Blu-ray
Video Resolution/Codec: 1080p/MPEG-4 AVC