Episode 440: The Big Combo (1955)

We kick-off Noirvember 2019 with a look at Joseph H. Lewis’s The Big Combo (1955). Written by Philip Yordan, the film stars Cornel Wilde as Lt. Leonard Diamond. He’s a cop with a soft spot for Susan Lowell (Jean Wallace), the main squeeze of Mr. Brown (Richard Conte). Diamond and Brown play a strange game of cat and mouse as Diamond seems to pursue justice while Brown is a psychopathic thug who thinks he’s anything but. Jedidiah Ayres and Brian Hoyle join Mike to discuss the film and posit just what that big combo of the title can mean. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices