The Dark Knight
2008 · Action · Thriller
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Film / 1953
The Big Heat
Directed by
Fritz Lang
After the suspicious suicide of a fellow cop, tough homicide detective Dave Bannion takes the law into his own hands when he sets out to smash a vicious crime syndicate.
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Cast
Glenn FordDet. Sgt. Dave Bannion
Gloria GrahameDebby Marsh
Jocelyn BrandoKatie Bannion
Alexander ScourbyMike Lagana
Lee MarvinVince Stone
Jeanette NolanBertha Duncan
Peter WhitneyTierney
Willis BoucheyLt. Ted Wilks
Robert BurtonDet. Gus Burke
Adam WilliamsLarry Gordon
Howard WendellPolice Commissioner Higgins
Chris AlcaideGeorge Rose
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Michael GrangerHugo
Dorothy GreenLucy Chapman
Carolyn JonesDoris
Ric RomanBaldy
Dan SeymourMr. Atkins
Edith EvansonSelma Parker
Phil ArnoldNick (uncredited)
Linda BennettJoyce Bannion (uncredited)
Charles CaneHopkins (uncredited)
Phil ChambersHettrick (uncredited)
Jack R. ClintonRetreat Patron (uncredited)
John ClosePoliceman (uncredited)
Sidney CluteRetreat Bartender (uncredited)
John CrawfordAl - Bannion's Brother-in-Law (uncredited)
John DoucetteMark Reiner (uncredited)
Kathryn EamesMarge (uncredited)
Al EbenHarry Shoenstein (uncredited)
Douglas EvansCouncilman Gillen (uncredited)
Fritz FordSailor (uncredited)
Jimmy GrayMan (uncredited)
Michael JeffersRetreat Patron (uncredited)
Byron KaneDr. Jones (uncredited)
Donald KerrCabby (uncredited)
Lyle LatellMoving Man (uncredited)
Harry LauterHank O'Connell (uncredited)
Nico LekCanteen Patron (uncredited)
Celia LovskyLagana's Mother in Portrait (uncredited)
Herbert LyttonMartin (uncredited)
Mike MahoneyDixon (uncredited)
Laura MasonB-Girl (uncredited)
Paul MaxeyGeorge Fuller (uncredited)
Joseph MellDr. Kane (uncredited)
John MertonMan (uncredited)
Patrick MillerIntern (uncredited)
William MurphyReds (uncredited)
Ezelle PouleMrs Tucker (uncredited)
Norma RandallJill (uncredited)
Michael RossSegal (uncredited)
Ted StanhopeLagana's Butler (uncredited)
Robert StevensonBill Rutherford (uncredited)
William VedderJanitor (uncredited)
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