{"product_id":"the-big-combo","title":"The Big Combo","description":"Joseph H. Lewis' masterpiece, \u003ci\u003eThe Big Combo,\u003c\/i\u003e stands alongside Billy Wilder's \u003ci\u003eDouble Indemnity,\u003c\/i\u003e Edgar G. Ulmer's \u003ci\u003eDetour\u003c\/i\u003e and Fritz Lang's \u003ci\u003eThe Big Heat\u003c\/i\u003e as one of the truly great film noir classics. This dark film is an unrelenting and tormented catalogue of savage violence, grotesquely black irony and dangerously obsessed sexuality.\u003cp\u003ePolice detective Leonard Diamond (Cornel Wilde) has two dangerous obsessions. He's on a reckless, hell-bent crusade to bring down smooth and sadistic gangster, Mr. Brown (Richard Conte) and wracked by insatiable desire for good-girl-gone-wrong Susan Lowell (Jean Wallace), Brown's captive lover. In mortal terror, Susan is helpless to escape from the lust-filled nightmare of her life.  Meanwhile, Brown's lieutenant-in-crime, McClure (Brian Donlevy) plots with cruel hoods Fante (Lee Van Cleef) and Mingo (Earl Holliman) to overthrow their boss.  In Brown's unforgiving world, however, defection and disloyalty are punishable by cruel and unusual death.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePhotographed by legendary master of sinister shadows, John Alton (\u003ci\u003eI, the Jury\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eHe Walked By Night\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe Lady and the Monster\u003c\/i\u003e), \u003ci\u003eThe Big Combo\u003c\/i\u003e is shocking and hard-boiled Hollywood noir, and not for the faint of heart.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alpha Video","offers":[{"title":"DVD","offer_id":45802869588118,"sku":"089218452795","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0703\/9621\/5446\/files\/089218452795.jpg?v=1762207071","url":"https:\/\/moviezyng.com\/products\/the-big-combo","provider":"Movie Zyng","version":"1.0","type":"link"}