{"id":9354,"date":"2013-12-30T05:50:59","date_gmt":"2013-12-30T09:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=9354"},"modified":"2024-07-13T21:01:40","modified_gmt":"2024-07-14T01:01:40","slug":"z-view-the-big-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=9354","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Big Heat&#8221; directed by Fritz Lang, starring Glenn Ford, Gloria Graham &amp; Lee Marvin \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2013\/z123013big_heat.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"726\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Pitch<\/span>:<\/strong>\u00a0\u201dHey, We could make a new kind of movie. \u00a0It&#8217;ll be about an <strong>honest cop<\/strong> who refuses to back off his investigation of a homicide. \u00a0He&#8217;ll go up against <strong>crooked cops, mobsters<\/strong> and refuse to quit no matter the cost. \u00a0This movie will influence everything from <em><strong>&#8216;Dirty Harry&#8217;<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0 to <strong>Frank Miller&#8217;s<\/strong> <em><strong>Sin City<\/strong><\/em>. \u00a0What do you say?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s do it!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Tagline<\/span>:<\/strong>\u00a0 \u201cA hard cop and a soft dame!.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Overview<\/span>:<\/strong>\u00a0 <strong>Glenn Ford<\/strong>\u00a0is <strong>Detective Sgt. Dave Bannion<\/strong>, a rare honest cop in a town run by a mobster named <strong>Mike Lagana<\/strong>. \u00a0<strong>Bannion<\/strong> is sent in to investigate the suicide of a fellow cop. \u00a0It should be an open-and-shut-case, but when a prostitute provides evidence that there&#8217;s more to the case, <strong>Bannion<\/strong> begins to dig deeper.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Then the prostitute turns up dead &#8212; the result of a torture murder &#8212; and <strong>Bannion<\/strong> is ordered to stand down. \u00a0He refuses. \u00a0How can one honest cop bring down a powerful mobster and a police force full of cops on the take? \u00a0<strong>Dave Bannion<\/strong> is going to find out&#8230; or die trying,<\/p>\n<p>*** Beware \u2013 minor spoilers can be found below ***<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Good<\/span>:<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The direction by<strong> Fritz Lang<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The cast: <strong>Glenn Ford, Gloria Graham, Jocelyn Brando, Alexander Scourby<\/strong>, and <strong>Lee Marvin<\/strong>! \u00a0They are excellent.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">There is an undercurrent that runs through this movie that what you&#8217;re seeing on the surface is just a hint of what is really going on.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The movie is perfectly cast from the main stars to the smallest roles. \u00a0<strong>Carolyn Jones<\/strong> [best known as <strong>Morticia<\/strong> on <em><strong>The Adams Family<\/strong><\/em>] has a small, but important role.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Bannion&#8217;s<\/strong> confrontation of <strong>Lagana<\/strong> in his mansion.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The interplay between <strong>Bannion<\/strong> and his wife.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Bannion<\/strong> in the bar [all of the scenes &#8211; with the prostitute, later with the bartender, and again when he backs down <strong>Lee Marvin<\/strong>].<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Bannion&#8217;s<\/strong> scenes in the hotel with <strong>Debby Marsh<\/strong>. \u00a0Will he cross the line? \u00a0Will they?<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The guy&#8217;s who get the drop on <strong>Bannion<\/strong>&#8230; and what happens next. \u00a0[It is not what you&#8217;d expect.]<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Bannion<\/strong> and <strong>Mrs. Duncan<\/strong>. \u00a0Will he cross the line [and not like he might have with <strong>Debby Marsh<\/strong>]?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Bad<\/span>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Lee<\/strong> <strong>Marvin<\/strong>\u00a0as <strong>Vince Stone<\/strong>. \u00a0He&#8217;s a mobster on the rise and he&#8217;ll do or have done whatever <strong>Lagana<\/strong> orders.<\/li>\n<li>Hot coffee near <strong>Vince Stone<\/strong> when he&#8217;s mad.<\/li>\n<li>What happens to people who cross<strong> Mike Lagana<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>What happens to people around <strong>Dave Bannion<\/strong> when he won&#8217;t back down.<\/li>\n<li>What happens to lawbreakers when <strong>Dave Bannion<\/strong> is on the case.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The Ugly:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Getting a face full of hot coffee.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Dave Bannion&#8217;s<\/strong> last line of the movie. \u00a0; )<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Rating: 5 out of 5<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pitch:\u00a0\u201dHey, We could make a new kind of movie. \u00a0It&#8217;ll be about an honest cop who refuses to back<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime","category-movies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9354"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36214,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9354\/revisions\/36214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}