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Title: One of the best film noirs ever!
Review: The Big Heat is a brilliant film noir crime drama that I hold in very high esteem. The film is charged with electricity in this story of a honest cop trying to discover the answer to a murder, whyile being mired down by his higherups take orders from the cityy's gangboss, Lagana. Glenn Ford, Lee Marvin and Gloria Grahame (the latter being the victim of one of cinema's most memorable sadistic scenes) all give extraordinary performances. One of director Fritz Lang's best.I watched the Blu-ray tonight. The print is excellent, except I detected a few cases of haloing. Grain is defnitely present.Audio could use a boost. At times, it was very good, but at others I had to crank up the receiver.Extras included a trailer and an isolated music score. There is also a booklet that spends too many of its 8 pages doing a scene-by-scene story synopsis.A recommended, high quality film noir on Blu-ray.
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