The Big Heat

The Big Heat is a Fritz Lang film noir in black and white. Screenplay by former crime reporter Sidney Boehm, based on a Saturday Evening Post serial by William P. McGivern. In 1952 the serial was published as a novel.

Debby Marsh

• The main thing is to have the money. I've been rich and I've been poor. Believe me, rich is better.
• We're sisters under the mink.

Dialogue

Vince Stone: Hey, that's nice perfume.

Debby Marsh: Something new. It attracts mosquitoes and repels men.

Cast

• Glenn Ford — Det. Sgt. Dave Bannion
• Gloria Grahame — Debby Marsh
• Lee Marvin — Vince Stone
• Jeanette Nolan — Bertha Duncan
• Alexander Scourby — Mike Lagana
• Jocelyn Brando — Katie Bannion
• Adam Williams — Larry, the car bomber
• Kathryn Eames — Bannion's sister-in-law