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The Big Heat (4K UHD, #1269) Tom Cruise a vengeful nerd turned madNoir doesnt 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 stylestripped 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