Chris Alcaide

The Big Heat -- A melodrama of dice, vice and corruption. Glenn Ford stars as a rogue homicide cop who takes the law into his own hands when he sets out to smash a vicious crime syndicate and in the process finds who planted the car bomb that killed his wife.

President Abe Lincoln would like to make peace with the Sioux Indians so he can transfer troops from the West to the South, where they are needed for Civil War duty. The Rebs hear of this and send a spy, Merrill, to pose as a Yankee and steal the gold that the Indians have promised to the Northerners.

Filmdom's legendary gangster Edward G. Robinson ("Little Caesar," "Double Indemnity") is a criminal lawyer who lays his reputation, and life, on the line defending his former assistant against a homicide charge. Starring Nina Foch ("An American in Paris," "The Ten Commandments"), Hugh Marlowe ("All About Eve," "The Birdman of Alcatraz"), and featuring an early appearance by blonde bombshell Jayne Mansfield.

President Abe Lincoln would like to make peace with the Sioux Indians so he can transfer troops from the West to the South, where they are needed for Civil War duty. The Rebs hear of this and send a spy, Merrill, to pose as a Yankee and steal the gold that the Indians have promised to the Northerners.