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	DVD Confidential: DVD Review: Big Combo, The (A-)
		The Big Combo has everything a great film noir needs: tough talking cops in suits, wiseguy criminals that resort to violence at the drop of a hat, mob gals that are too smart for their own good, strippers with hearts of gold, and most of all - lots and lots of guns.
		The writer of the Big Combo (Phillip Yordan) knew where the line was on the camp factor, and he pushed it as far as it could go without crossing it.
		So next time you are in the mood for a tough as nails cops and robbers tale, reach for the Big Combo, a classic film noir shot in gorgeous fl and white.
	www.dvdconfidential.com /2004/01/dvd-review-big-combo-a.html (519 words)

	Savant Review : The Big Combo
		The Big Combo appeared at the waning end of the noir cycle that was quickly mutating into more standard police dramas filmed in a semi-realistic television style, like Don Siegel's The Lineup.
		Writers on film noir love The Big Combo not only because it exemplifies the visual extremes of what is actually a style and not a genre, but because the obsessive themes override the common concerns of plot and drama.
		Combo is a pared-down film done on an Allied Artists non-budget, and there doesn't appear to have been a lot of time or attention devoted to the finer points of acting - this is no Nick Ray method showcase.
	www.dvdtalk.com /dvdsavant/s112combo.html (1553 words)

	The Big Combo (DVDs)
		A prime example of the American film noir style that flourished during the 1940s and '50s, The Big Combo is now highly regarded as a stylistic milestone for its innovative use of deep shadows and harsh, singular light sources to define its visual strategy.
		And my answer to his complaints about the dialogue is to suggest that perhaps he has confused The Big* Combo* with, well, Double Indemnity.
		A word of praise also goes to the performers: Jean Wallace is a walking blonde veneer steaming with sexual degredation beneath the surface; her real-life husband Cornel Wilde is the quintessential New York City detective.
	www.netleihe.de /The-Big-Combo---n952768,c952768,iB000B7QCT0,CA.html (1674 words)

	Vince Lee and The Big Combo
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	Amazon.ca: Big Combo: DVD: Joseph H. Lewis,Cornel Wilde,Richard Conte,Brian Donlevy,Jean Wallace,Robert Middleton,Lee ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		A prime example of the American film noir style that flourished during the 1940s and '50s, The Big Combo is now highly regarded as a stylistic milestone for its innovative use of deep shadows and harsh, singular light sources to define its visual strategy.
		The Big Combo is a film every viewer needs to own not only did it set the standard for almost every film since its release it also set a bench mark for the imagination of the viewer!
		Nothing at all slows down The Big Combo the dialogue rattle and the scenes of unending torture are impressive.
	www.amazon.ca /Big-Combo-Joseph-H-Lewis/dp/B00003XALW (2176 words)

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	The Big Combo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Big Combo (1955) is director Joseph H. Lewis' fl-and-white film noir.
		According to film critics, this film stands with others like Fritz Lang's The Big Heat as one of the great film noir classics.
		Lewis had a remarkable ability to infuse poetry into the most banal material, and The Big Combo is one of his best efforts...
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Big_Combo (437 words)

	DVD Verdict Review - The Big Combo
		The Big Combo is a crime melodrama that blended overt sexually with graphic violence at a level seldom seen in films of the 1950s.
		The contrast between the light on the players' faces and their inky surroundings is startling at times, accentuating the isolation that each of them increasingly must feel as the film's events close in on each of them.
		The Big Combo is actually known for two particular sequences—one for its brutality, the other for its sexuality—that were unusual for films of the time.
	www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/bigcombo.shtml (1372 words)

	LaughCenter.com: VHS Laughter: The Big Combo
		Compared to modern mob movies, the violence in "The Big Combo", even the torture sequence, is very tame.
		Cinematographer John Alton may have been film noir's most expressionistic photographer, and "The Big Combo" exploits his precision low-key lighting and penchant for shooting through fog to their greatest advantage.
		"The Big Combo" is one of film noir's most obvious examples of the sexualization of violence.
	www.laughcenter.com /reviews-VHS-404272-B00004CM7L-1-The_Big_Combo.html (1379 words)

	The Big Combo
		Yet despite the unoriginal story, the Big Combo is very original as it comes at the close of the film noir era.
		Photographically The Big Combo is theatre, where the landscape is pure illusion, shaped by light and shadow.
		For Cornel Wilde, his urgent character is quite different from the passive novelist in love with a manipulative beauty that he played in Leave Her to Heaven (1945).
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	The Big Combo (1955) - Moviefone
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	Big Combo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Big Combo/B-,D- Image/1955/88m/FS 1.33/BW Several of cinematographer John Alton's films are prime examples of film noir.
		Cornel Wilde, the star of The Big Combo, has a flat, monotone style of acting, but still, I would have liked to be able to look into his eyes of those close-ups and get an inkling of what was going on behind them.
		There are a good crew of supporting actors crouching in the shadows of The Big Combo.
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	The Big Combo
		The Big Combo desperately wants to be a dark and violent film noir, but it merely succeeds in being a rather unmemorable crime melodrama, though it is fairly violent.
		Diamond arrests 95 people in Brown's Big Combo (it is pretty big, isn't it?) including Brown and questions everyone about Alicia, but no one knows nothing.
		Somehow or other, Diamond's boss knows where he is, even though the Big Combo hasn't been able to find him for seven years and he's just over on the other side of town.
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	Amazon.com: The Big Combo: DVD: Cornel Wilde,Richard Conte,Brian Donlevy,Jean Wallace,Robert Middleton,Lee Van ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Compared to modern mob movies, the violence in "The Big Combo", even the torture sequence, is very tame.
		"The Big Combo" is thoroughly characteristic of classic film noir, which is remarkable in that it was a latecomer to the classic film noir movement, released in 1955...
		Lean, taut, and violent, "The Big Combo" is a great example of 1950's film noir and belongs in the same rank as "This Gun For Hire," "The Killers," and "Criss Cross.
	www.amazon.com /Big-Combo-Cornel-Wilde/dp/B00003XALW (2035 words)

	The Big Combo
		The Big Combo is surprisingly violent for its day, but that's nothing new to the films of Joseph Lewis: after all, his Gun Crazy features a remarkable real-time bank heist that is years ahead of its time and has never been equalled.
		In The Big Combo, he is teamed with the great cinematographer John Alton, who made the darkness of film noir sing like no other.
		Oh, some elements of the film can't help but seem dated, but it's approach to crime and criminals seems more akin to the crime films of the seventies or nineties than it does to the mainstream of fifties film noir.
	www.tranquility.net /~benedict/bigcombo.html (496 words)

	AudioRevolution.com DVD Review of THE BIG COMBO
		THE BIG COMBO has the usual twists and turns: Brown can't dissuade Diamond with threats or violence.
		These two aren't sadists, like Brown; they're just competent brutes who enjoy their work -- and they are also gay lovers, a relationship that Lewis and Yordan managed to slip past the usually-alert censors of the 1950s.
		"THE BIG COMBO seems to take place almost entirely at night, with the deep shadowy lows and harsh stabbing highs that are common in films noir.
	www.audiorevolution.com /dvd/revs/bigcombo.shtml (1068 words)

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		The CD is comprised of many examples and play-along pieces found in the book, allowing the student the opportunity to play alongside professional musicians.
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	The Big Combo (1955) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Goofs: Continuity: When John Hoyt as Dreyer reaches into his desk for a gun, the contents of the desk on the insert close-up do not match the contents on the master shot.
		THE BIG COMBO (Joseph H. Lewis, 1955) ***,
		I had first seen this one some 15 years ago when I caught it one afternoon, quite by accident, on Italian TV and was very impressed by it; I'm glad that my re-acquaintance with it via Alpha's DVD proved to be equally satisfying.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0047878 (324 words)

	First is First and Second is Nobody: Hoodlums and Heroines in Joseph H. Lewis' The Big Combo
		Philip Yordan's script for The Big Combo is loaded with equally pithy expressions of masculine bravado, but as with many a classic noir film, these over-assertions of masculine potency are obliquely undermined by elements of characterisation, visual style and narrative structure.
		Neither a critical or commercial success at the time of its release, Joseph H. Lewis's The Big Combo is now generally regarded as one of the defining classics of the American film noir cycle.
		While Lewis is invariably described as a low budget specialist and B-movie master, The Big Combo is notable for what one critic describes as its hybrid, A/B-film status.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/cteq/03/25/big_combo.html (1180 words)

	The Big Combo (1955) - Synopsis - Moviefone
		Police Lt. Leonard Diamond (Cornel Wilde) is criticized by his superior Capt. Peterson (Robert Middleton) for his obsessive but fruitless investigation of organized crime boss Mr.
		Though superficially a story of good vs. evil, Joseph H. Lewis's film noir presents a complex world, visually captured by John Alton's stark photography, in which the lines between good/evil and love/hate are not always clear.
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	BIG COMBO (DVD MOVIE) : ShoppersChoice.com
		BIG COMBO (DVD MOVIE): Joseph H. Lewis masterpiece, The Big Combo, stands alongside Billy Wilder s Double Indemnity, Edgar G. Ulmer s Detour and Fritz Lang s The Big Heat as one of the truly great film noir classics.
		This dark film is an unrelenting and tormented catalogue of savage violence, grotesquely fl irony and dangerously obsessed sexuality.
		Photographed by legendary master of sinister shadows, John Alton (I, the Jury; He Walked By Night; The Lady and the Monster), The Big Combo is shocking and hard-boiled Hollywood noir, and not for the faint of heart.
	www.shopperschoice.com /item_item_509072.html (510 words)

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	The Big Combo
		There are all manner of sexual innuendos in the script, and a torture scene as well making this movie pretty strong stuff by the standards of the day.
		Shadows and light play a huge role in the look of the film, and the lighting makes the low budget sets on which the film was shot look far more intimidating than they would have been were they lit without the shadows and contrasts in mind.
		The contrast levels are dead on — the fls, which play such a huge part in the look of the film, are stable and quite dark and the middle and lighter tones look properly balanced as well.
	www.dvdmaniacs.net /Reviews/A-D/big_combo.html (770 words)

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	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Big Combo at Epinions.com
		But there’s more: The Big Combo benefits from a taut script, by Philip Yordan, with punchy dialog and a great cast who translate the written word into compelling action.
		The story is about a police detective (Cornel Wilde - The Naked Prey) who is obsessed with bringing down the kingpin of the local organization, the “Big Combo” of the title.
		Where The Maltese Falcon and The Big Sleep hinted at dark subjects, The Big Combo brings them right to the fore.
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