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Podcast: The Projection Booth Podcast
Episode: Episode 440: The Big Combo (1955)
Description: 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 me...