Episode 440: The Big Combo (1955)

The Projection Booth

Tv & Film, Film Interviews, Film Reviews, Film History

4.6 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2019

⏱️ 104 minutes

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Summary

We kick-off Noirvember 2019 with a look at Joseph H. Lewis’s The Big Combo (1955). Written by Philip Yordan, the film stars Cornel Wilde as Lt. Leonard Diamond. He’s a cop with a soft spot for Susan Lowell (Jean Wallace), the main squeeze of Mr. Brown (Richard Conte). Diamond and Brown play a strange game of cat and mouse as Diamond seems to pursue justice while Brown is a psychopathic thug who thinks he’s anything but.

Jedidiah Ayres and Brian Hoyle join Mike to discuss the film and posit just what that big combo of the title can mean.
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0:00.0	You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast.
0:04.6	Christopher Media. Let's make some noise.
0:15.3	Sam, get the DA's office and get a warrant for Brown's arrest.
0:19.9	Take a look at Joe McClure here.
0:21.2	Used to be my boss.
0:22.3	Now I'm his.
0:23.5	What's the difference between me and him?
0:26.0	We breathe the same air, sleep in the same hotel.
0:29.3	He used to own it!
0:31.6	Now it belongs to me.
0:33.7	We eat the same steaks, drink the same bourbon.
0:35.9	Look, same manicure, same cufflinks.
0:39.3	But there's only one difference.
0:41.3	We don't get the same girls.
0:42.3	Why? Because women know the difference.
0:45.3	They got instinct.
0:47.3	First is first and second there's nobody.
0:49.3	Thought maybe we could go dancing.
0:52.3	I've been dancing, Lieutenant.
0:55.0	Furthermore, you haven't been around here for six months.
0:57.3	And furthermore, if you want a date, do what the others do.
0:59.9	Call me first.
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