The Big Combo

The Big Combo is a 1955 American film noir directed by Joseph H. Lewis and photographed by cinematographer John Alton, with music by David Raksin.

Police Lt. Leonard Diamond is on a personal crusade to bring down sadistic gangster Mr. Brown. Hes also dangerously obsessed with Browns girlfriend, the suicidal Susan Lowell. His main objective as a detective is to uncover what happened to a woman called Alicia from the crime bosss past.Mr. Brown, his secondincommand McClure and thugs Fante and Mingo kidnap and torture the lieutenant, then pour a bottle of alcoholbased hair tonic down his throat before letting him go. Diamond eventually learns through one of Browns past accomplices that Alicia was actually Browns wife. The accomplice suspects that Alicia was sent away to Sicily with former mob boss Grazzi, then murdered, tied to the boats anchor and permanently submerged. ........

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