The Big Heat

A hard cop and a soft dame.

After the suspicious suicide of a fellow cop, tough homicide detective Dave Bannion takes the law into his own hands when he sets out to smash a vicious crime syndicate.

Glenn Ford

(Det. Sgt. Dave Bannion)

Gloria Grahame

Lee Marvin

Jeanette Nolan

(Bertha Duncan)

Alexander Scourby

Jocelyn Brando

(Katie Bannion)

Peter Whitney

Willis Bouchey

(Lt. Ted Wilks)

Robert Burton

(Det. Gus Burke)

Adam Williams

Carolyn Jones

Howard Wendell

(Police Commissioner Higgins)

Chris Alcaide

Michael Granger

Dorothy Green

Ric Roman

Dan Seymour

Edith Evanson

Harry Lauter

(Hank O'Connell (uncredited))

Michael Ross

(Segal (uncredited))

Phil Arnold

(Retreat Waiter (uncredited))

Sidney Clute

(Retreat Bartender (uncredited))

Michael Jeffers

(Retreat Patron (uncredited))

Linda Bennett

(Joyce Bannion (uncredited))

Charles Cane

(Police Guard Outside Lagana Home (uncredited))

Byron Kane

(Police Surgeon (uncredited))

John Close

(Policeman (uncredited))

Phil Chambers

(Hettrick (uncredited))

John Crawford

(Al - Bannion's Brother-in-Law (uncredited))

John Doucette

(Mark Reiner (uncredited))

Al Eben

(Harry Shoenstein (uncredited))

Douglas Evans

(Councilman Gillen (uncredited))

Fritz Ford

(Sailor (uncredited))

Donald Kerr

(Cabby (uncredited))

Lyle Latell

(Moving Man (uncredited))

John Merton

(Man (uncredited))

Celia Lovsky

(Lagana's Mother in Portrait (uncredited))

Ted Stanhope

(Lagana's Butler (uncredited))

Herbert Lytton

(Martin (uncredited))

Mike Mahoney

(Dixon (uncredited))

Laura Mason

(B-Girl (uncredited))

Paul Maxey

(George Fuller (uncredited))

Joseph Mell

(Medical Examiner (uncredited))

Patrick Miller

(Intern (uncredited))

William Murphy

(Reds (uncredited))

Ezelle Poule

(Mrs Tucker (uncredited))

Norma Randall

(Jill (uncredited))

Robert Stevenson

(Bill Rutherford (uncredited))

William Vedder

(Janitor (uncredited))