#the big heat

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Just taking the opportunity to look at the details of this scene in black and white.

911 Lone Star: The Big Heat (2x12)

I've been through some particularly difficult fights with the lighting in this scene for two different gif sets (1, 2). Thought it might be nice to see it all together.

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The Big Heat, Fritz Lang, 1953

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(via Pulp International - Photos of kneeling Hollywood stars)

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TCMFF Day 3 Dana Delaney and Eddie Muller will be introducing THE BIG HEAT, 12:15 pm at TCL Multiplex House 6. Ms. Delaney wrote an article about Gloria Grahame for Noir City Magazine. You can buy a print copy: https://bit.ly/4b3r21c or a digital copy: https://bit.ly/3xI6Mnz

THE BIG HEAT (1953): In this seminal noir, a police detective (Glenn Ford) whose wife was killed by the mob teams with a gangster's moll (Gloria Grahame) to bring down a powerful racketeer (Alexander Scourby). Lee Marvin steals the film as Grahame’s abusive boyfriend and eventual object of her revenge. Dir. Fritz Lang

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2x12 -> 4x16 🥺❤️‍🩹

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Gloria Grahame, Glenn Ford and director Fritz Lang on set of THE BIG HEAT (1953) coming up on #TCM, the final night of the #StarOfTheMonth tribute to Grahame on her centenary.

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HBD Gloria Grahame

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The Big Heat • Director Fritz Lang

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The Big Heat (1953) takes place in the Bad Timeline of It’s a Wonderful Life, where Gloria Graham became a burlesque dancer.

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"How do two dads hear the thing most important to them is in danger and both go, ah yes the 126?" This is an excellent question lmao

It absolutely kills me that Owen is drinking and carrying on with Billy, Tommy and Judd for a while before he thinks that the 126 *might not be* the most important thing. I yell at my tv every time. Owen’s empathy is consistently fierce but sometimes his scope is like so broken.

@liminalmemories21 posits that Gabriel accepted Owen’s declaration of the firehouse and assumed he wasn’t a target in any way. Hmpf. But at least it’s unbelievably canon, lol; he’s so aloof about his family. 🤣

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The Big Heat

城巿特警 (1988)

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The big heat

Glenn Ford and Gloria Grahame

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The happiest of birthdays in the afterlife to Lee Marvin! Truly one of the best to ever do it!

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#TCMFF Day 4 morning screenings. Eddie Muller will introduce DOUBLE INDEMNITY with Fred MacMurray's daughter Kath MacMurrary, TCL Chinese Theatres IMAX, 9:00. Also for the criminally minded, MURDER, SHE SAID, the first of the Miss Marple films starring Margaret Rutherford, TCL Multiplex, House 4, 9:15 Plus a repeat of THE BIG HEAT, Multiplex, House 6, 11:45.

DOUBLE INDEMNITY (1944): Barbara Stanwyck—in a platinum blonde wig—plays Phyllis Dietrichson—the consummate femme fatale who lures insurance salesman and all-around chump Walter Neff (Fred McMurray) into a plot involving murder and insurance fraud. His friend, and insurance adjuster, Barton Keyes (Edward G. Robinson) smells a rat. Nominated for seven Oscars: Best Actress in a Leading Role; Best Cinematography, Black-and-White; Best Director; Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture; Best Picture; Best Sound, Recording; and Best Writing, Screenplay. Dir. Billy Wilder

MURDER SHE SAID (1961): When nobody believes she witnessed a murder, Miss Marple (Margaret Rutherford) investigates herself along with her friend Jim Stringer, played by Rutherford’s husband Stinger Davis. Based on Agatha Christie’s "4:50 from Paddington". Trivia: Joan Dixon has a small part in the film and would go on to become the definitive Miss Marple in the BBC series that aired from 1984-1992. Dir. George Pollock

THE BIG HEAT (1953): In this seminal noir, a police detective (Glenn Ford) whose wife was killed by the mob teams with a gangster's moll (Gloria Grahame) to bring down a powerful racketeer (Alexander Scourby). Lee Marvin steals the film as Grahame’s abusive boyfriend and eventual object of her revenge. Dir. Fritz Lang

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Movie Review | The Big Heat (Lang, 1953)

The weakest part here is the relationship between the hero Glenn Ford and his wife Jocelyn Brando. I suppose the domestic scenes in a crime thriller are bound to be the least interesting part, unless some of the crime and thrills are happening domestically. But I think you can look to something like Panic in the Streets and the relationship between Richard Widmark and Barbara Bel Geddes to see how you can breathe life into such scenes. 

But I also think the movie is doing something pretty interesting with the role of women in this story full of violence and cruelty. Brando’s death is the impetus for Ford to escalate his war against the criminal element, represented by corrupt politicians and police leadership and an especially reptilian hood played by Lee Marvin. But maybe Ford isn’t all there, as he repeatedly uses the women in this movie to further his vengeance, regardless of the consequences. He’s an interesting choice for a leading man, because he embodies a certain morally upstanding quality and has a seemingly sensitive presence that the movie allows to curdle. Would this man knowingly put you in danger?

Not that he’s the only one capable of cruelty here, conscious or otherwise. Jeanette Nolan, the wife of the cop whose suicide kicks off the story, seems happy to make the kind of choices no less cold than the ones Ford makes, albeit for self preservation. The most complex and sympathetic character here is Gloria Grahame as Marvin’s trophy girlfriend, whose bombshell presence masks her discomfort with the involvement she has in the proceedings. The others in the movie seem to make choices without being too bothered about them. She’s the only one willing to grapple with their moral weight.