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TITLE Big Heat, The (1953)

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DISABILITY Disfigurement

COUNTRY USA

LENGTH 90

GENRE Thriller

DIRECTOR Fritz Lang

CAST Glenn Ford

Gloria Grahame

Jocelyn Brando

Alexander Scourby

Lee Marvin

Jeanette Nolan

Peter Whitney

NOTES B/W

A minor classic in the cops and robbers genre, thanks to fine

direction, script and acting.

Included here for the scene in which Marvin throws hot coffee

in Grahame's face disfiguring her.

Marvin then was almost unknown (his first film was in 1951)

and he was type cast here as a 'heavy' but he plays the part

wonderfully. As does the then much better know Grahame.

Doug Hockin writes:
Earlier in the film, there's a woman who works in the
office of a junk yard who helps out the detective.  She limps badly, and walks with a cane. She makes the comment that she's lucky that anyone gives her a job (her boss works for the bad guys).
Later in the film, the Lee Marvin character is also disfigured by hot water thown at him by the woman he thew the boiling water at earlier.
When the Glenn Ford catches up with him just afterward,
I'm pretty sure he begs him to kill him, rather than
let him live with the burn.

 


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