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"On the surface, 'The Big Heat' (1953) by Fritz Lang (#BOTD) is about Bannion's fearless one-man struggle against a mob so entrenched that the police commissioner is a regular at Marvin's poker game.But if that were its real subject, it would be long, flat & dry"
--- Roger Ebert
"The moral drama has almost a mythic scale. It has a corrupted world collapsing from within. It is very different from other noirs; its not just the individual who is corrupted, but the entire system."
Martin Scorsese on "Force of Evil (1948)" by Abraham Polonsky