The Big Heat (1953 Fritz Lang)

Good revenge thriller. Lone cop Glenn Ford with integrity faces corruption all around - goes to war with mob when his wife Jocelyn Brando is blown up.

Gloria Grahame famously has boiling coffee thrown in her face by Lee Marvin - she gets her own back..

With Alexander Scourby, Jeanette Nolan, Willis Bouchey, Robert Burton, Adam Williams (other hood; North By Northwest), Carolyn Jones. Photographed by Charles Lang, made for Columbia this time.