The Big Combo (1955) Film Noir Crime

Police Lt. Leonard Diamond is on a personal crusade to bring down sadistic gangster Mr. Brown. He s 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 thr