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The Big Combo

1955Movie1 h 28 minNR

CrimeDrama
83
GreatGoodWatch score
IMDb7.3Letterboxd3.8/5Rotten Tomatoes93%79%
83
GreatGoodWatch score
IMDb7.3Letterboxd3.8/5Rotten Tomatoes93%79%

Summary

Police Lt. Leonard Diamond vies to bring a clever, well connected, and sadistic gangster to justice all the while obsessing over the gangster's girlfriend.

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  • Thought-provoking
  • Adults
  • Solo watch

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  • Puts you inside a crime.
  • Keeps you on edge.
  • Pulls you in.
  • Keeps you guessing.
  • Gets your pulse racing.

Not for warmth, laughs or comfort.

The whole fingerprint· the print and its 12 scales

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Disposable Womanin 385 titlesRita, a burlesque dancer Diamond apparently has a Friends with Benefits-type relationship with.The Main Characters Do Everythingin 348 titlesBrown's criminal empire apparently consists of close to a hundred people, all of which are briefly arrested at the start of the film, but the only ones who actually do anything are Brown, his right h…All 13 tropes

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