{"product_id":"the-big-combo-standard-edition-us-import-4k-ultra-hd-blu-ray","title":"The Big Combo Standard Edition (US Import) [4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray]","description":"\u003cp\u003eDirector Joseph H. Lewis and cinematographer John Alton push film noir to its starkest extremes in The Big Combo, a 1955 crime classic starring Cornel Wilde and Richard Conte. Wilde plays police lieutenant Leonard Diamond, whose relentless campaign against powerful crime boss Mr. Brown (Conte) has become as personal as it is professional. Diamond's obsession is intensified by his feelings for Brown's troubled mistress Susan Lowell (Jean Wallace), whose desperation to escape the gangster's control may provide the opening he needs to finally bring Brown down.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten by Philip Yordan, The Big Combo builds its underworld story around shifting loyalties, buried secrets and an increasingly destructive contest between two determined men. Brian Donlevy plays former syndicate boss Joe McClure, while Robert Middleton appears as Brown's associate Dreyer and Lee Van Cleef and Earl Holliman portray the inseparable hitmen Fante and Mingo. Helen Walker and Jay Adler also figure prominently in Diamond's investigation. Lewis stages the violence and psychological cruelty with an intensity that challenged the boundaries of mid-1950s Hollywood filmmaking, while Alton's extraordinary use of darkness, silhouettes, fog and concentrated pools of light gives the picture some of the most recognizable imagery in American film noir.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIGNITE Films presents The Big Combo in a new 70th Anniversary 4K restoration, preserving its original theatrical presentation. The restoration was created from a new 35mm dupe negative and restored 35mm track negative by the UCLA Film \u0026amp; Television Archive, with funding from The Film Foundation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis edition places Lewis and Alton's collaboration within the broader development of postwar noir while showcasing the visual design, performances and uncompromising tone that have sustained The Big Combo's reputation as a landmark of the genre.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ignite Films","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50654880235590,"sku":null,"price":44.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0747\/8096\/6982\/files\/MVD20894D.jpg?v=1792192240","url":"https:\/\/peakbooks.co\/products\/the-big-combo-standard-edition-us-import-4k-ultra-hd-blu-ray","provider":"Peak Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}