The Big Combo 1955 Cornel Wilde, Richard Conte and Brian Donlevy, as well as Jean Wallace

Police Lt. Leonard Diamond is on a personal crusade to bring down the sadistic gangster Mr. Brown. He is also dangerously obsessed with Brown s girlfriend, the suicidal Susan Lowell. His main objective as a detective is to uncover what happened to a woman called Alicia from the crime boss s past. Mr. Brown, his secondincommand McClure, and thugs Fante and Mingo kidnap and torture the lieutenant, then pour a bottle of alcoholbased hair tonic down his throat before letting him go. Diamond eventually learns through one of Brown s past