The Big Heat

Cop Bannion (Glenn Ford) drops in on the polished gangster Lagana (Alexander Scourby) and his hunky aide George (Chris Alcaide) to deliver a warning in Fritz Lang's The Big Heat, 1953.

First scene for usually blonde, and now Academy Award-winner (for The Bad And The Beautiful, 1953) Gloria Grahame, as gang-moll Debby, with thug boyfriend Vince (Lee Marvin), sidekick Larry (Adam Williams) and their boss Lagana (Alexander Scourby) in Fritz Lang's The Big Heat, 1953.

Crisp opening sequence from Fritz Lang's The Big Heat, 1953, starring Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame and Lee Marvin, featuring Jeanette Nolan making a quick adjustment to widowhood.

After dinner and before their date, discourse between cop Dave Bannion (Glenn Ford) and spouse Katie (Jocelyn Brando, Marlon's older sister) so domestic you know something bad is coming, in Fritz Lang's film noir The Big Heat, 1953.

Famous scene in which rightly suspicious gangster Vince (Lee Marvin) freaks out and burns girlfriend Debbie (Gloria Grahame) with hot coffee, Howard Wendell as the panicked politician, Alexander Scourby the kingpin taking the call, in Fritz Lang's The Big Heat, 1953.

Gang-moll Debby (Gloria Grahame) is interested in newly-bereaved cop Bannion (Glenn Ford), unaware of his situation but impressed with the way he just trounced her sniveling boyfriend, visiting his hotel room in Fritz Lang's The Big Heat, 1953.

Police detective Glenn Ford teams with gangster's moll Gloria Grahame after his wife is murdered by the mob in Fritz Lang's The Big Heat (1953).