The Big Combo (1955)
"The Most Startling Story The Screen Has Ever Dared Reveal!"
ThumbScore
👍 81%audience score Estimated from TMDB user ratings and critic scores, calibrated to Google's former audience score. Google stopped publishing it in 2026.
Critics Score
🎬 93%
(RT: 93%) RT = Rotten Tomatoes (critic reviews). MC = Metacritic (weighted critic average). Critics Score is the average of both.
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Cast
Cornel Wilde as Leonard Diamond
Jean Wallace as Susan Lowell
Brian Donlevy as Joe McClure
Richard Conte as Mr. Brown
Earl Holliman as Mingo
Robert Middleton as Police Capt. Peterson
Helen Walker as Alicia Brown
Is The Big Combo good?
Most people think so. 81% audience score, estimated from 180 TMDB ratings. Critics gave it 93%.
Overview
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. Wikipedia ↗
