Release Date: July 1, 2025
Prices and Links:
Criterion- $39.96 (4K+Blu-ray), $31.96 (Blu-ray only)
OrbitDVD- $33.99 (4K+Blu-ray)
DiabolikDVD- $34.99 (4K+Blu-ray)
Director: Fritz Lang
Writers: Sydney Boehm, William P. McGivern
Starring: Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Jocelyn Brando, Alexander Scourby, Lee Marvin
Noir doesn’t get any more hard-boiled than this scorching tale of vice and retribution, a film that finds director Fritz Lang working at the peak of his Hollywood style—stripped to the bone, simmering with outrage, and fatalistic to the core. A tightly wound Glenn Ford stars as a homicide detective whose investigation into a sprawling crime syndicate becomes a shockingly personal, hate-fueled quest for revenge. Costarring an iconic Gloria Grahame as the mink-coated gangster’s moll with her own axe to grind, and featuring a supporting cast led by a sensationally sleazy Lee Marvin, The Big Heat hits with raw, unstoppable force.
Prices and Links:
Criterion- $39.96 (4K+Blu-ray), $31.96 (Blu-ray only)
OrbitDVD- $33.99 (4K+Blu-ray)
DiabolikDVD- $34.99 (4K+Blu-ray)
Director: Fritz Lang
Writers: Sydney Boehm, William P. McGivern
Starring: Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Jocelyn Brando, Alexander Scourby, Lee Marvin
- United States
- 1953
- 89 minutes
- Black & White
- 1.37:1
- English
Noir doesn’t get any more hard-boiled than this scorching tale of vice and retribution, a film that finds director Fritz Lang working at the peak of his Hollywood style—stripped to the bone, simmering with outrage, and fatalistic to the core. A tightly wound Glenn Ford stars as a homicide detective whose investigation into a sprawling crime syndicate becomes a shockingly personal, hate-fueled quest for revenge. Costarring an iconic Gloria Grahame as the mink-coated gangster’s moll with her own axe to grind, and featuring a supporting cast led by a sensationally sleazy Lee Marvin, The Big Heat hits with raw, unstoppable force.
4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
- New audio commentary by film-noir experts Alain Silver and James Ursini
- New video essay by critic Farran Smith Nehme on the women in the film
- Audio interviews with director Fritz Lang, conducted by film historian Gideon Bachmann and filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich
- Interviews with filmmakers Michael Mann and Martin Scorsese
- Trailer
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: An essay by author Jonathan Lethem
