The Big Heat
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The Big Heat
Quotations
The Big Heat is a Fritz Lang film noir in black and white. Screenplay by former crime reporter Sidney Boehm, based on a Saturday Evening Post serial by William P. McGivern. In 1952 the serial was published as a novel.
Debby Marsh
- The main thing is to have the money. I've been rich and I've been poor. Believe me, rich is better.
- We're sisters under the mink.
Dialogue
- Vince Stone: Hey, that's nice perfume.
- Debby Marsh: Something new. It attracts mosquitoes and repels men.
Cast
- Glenn Ford — Det. Sgt. Dave Bannion
- Gloria Grahame — Debby Marsh
- Lee Marvin — Vince Stone
- Jeanette Nolan — Bertha Duncan
- Alexander Scourby — Mike Lagana
- Jocelyn Brando — Katie Bannion
- Adam Williams — Larry, the car bomber
- Kathryn Eames — Bannion's sister-in-law