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Policeman Leonard Diamond ([[Cornel Wilde]]) is on a personal crusade to bring down sadistic gangster, Mr. Brown ([[Richard Conte]]). He's also obsessed with a woman ([[Jean Wallace]]), who also happens to be Brown's captive lover. Mr. Brown taunts Diamond every step of the way which seems to make Diamond more obsessed. Brown's right-hand man, over the hill, hard of hearing and shifty-eyed McClure ([[Brian Donlevy]]) plots with gangsters (and possibly lovers) Fante ([[Lee Van Cleef]]) and Mingo ([[Earl Holliman]]) to overthrow Mr. Brown but ends up getting tourtured in a violent scene rare for it's time. Meanwhile Diamond has found a witness that could finally nail the elusive gangster, Mr. Brown's wife - a woman who was thought to have died years ago. The film ends dramaticly in a classic foggy airplane hanger shootout.

Reviews of the movie today are mostly positive. [http://www.cinescene.com/flicks/flicks072004.htm#big Chris Dashiell on the website Cinescene] finds the dialog "run of the mill" but praises the films director: "... Lewis had a remarkable ability to infuse poetry into the most banal material, and ''The Big Combo'' is one of his best efforts... it's not as startlingly inventive as Lewis's best film, [[Gun Crazy]] (1949), but it's a quality [[B-film]], satisfying and dark."

== Main Cast ==