Fritz Lang’s ‘Big Heat’
Fritz Lang’s classic gangster movie, “The Big Heat,” will be screened by the Canterbury Film Society at 7.30 p.m. next Wednesday only at the Museum Theaterette, Rolleston Avenue. The American film critic, Pauline Kael, had the following to say about “The Big Heat,” which stars Glenn Ford, Lee Marvin and Gloria Graham: “Sydney Boehm’s solid, hard-nosed script might have been made into a routine cops-and-robbers thriller, but the director, Fritz Lang, gave it a
formalised style. “The movie is all of a piece; it’s designed in light and shadows, and its underworld atmosphere glistens with the possibilities of sadism — this is a definitive film noir, with a few stunningly choreographed nasty scenes.” The supporting short is entitled “Hesse’s Lifework.” Society subscriptions for the last half of the year are amazingly good value at $l5, and $l2 for students and beneficiaries. The screening is also open to the public at an admission-donation charge.
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Press, 4 July 1985, Page 18
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