The Big Combo

The Most Startling Story The Screen Has Ever Dared Reveal!

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Police Lt. Leonard Diamond vies to bring a clever, well connected, and sadistic gangster to justice all the while obsessing over the gangster's girlfriend.

Released: Feb 13, 1955

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Cornel Wilde

Leonard Diamond

Jean Wallace

Susan Lowell

Brian Donlevy

Joe McClure

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