On this day in movie history - The Big Heat (movie & novel):

The Big Heat

directed by Fritz Lang,

written by Sydney Boehm,

based on the novel by William P. McGivern,

and the serial that ran in the Saturday Evening Post,

was released in the United States on October 14, 1953.
Music by Henry Vars.

Cast:

Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Jocelyn Brando, Alexander Scourby, Lee Marvin, Jeanette Nolan, Peter Whitney, Willis Bouchey, Robert Burton, Adam Williams, Howard Wendell, Dorothy Green.

Recommended reading:

The Big Heat

By William P. McGivern.

First published 1953.

Published by Ibooks.

Paperback.

ISBN-10: 0743452704

ISBN-13: 978-0743452700

Description:

A tough suspense novel of hero cops, cool killers and hot broads...

“A powerful story, powerfully told.” – New York Times.

MURDER WAS IN THE AIR. A COP HAD KILLED HIMSELF, AND EVERY CROOK IN TOWN KNEW THAT WOULD BE SURE TO BRING ON THE BIG HEAT. It started almost innocently when a cop committed suicide – worry over ill health, said his wife. Detective Dave Bannion wasn’t so sure, but when he started digging, he was told to lay off – fast! Instead, he turned in his badge and started stalking the city streets and bars in search of the truth where he uncovers a red-hot story of murder and corruption that would blow Philadelphia’s underworld sky high. Bannion was big, strong, and angry enough to kill, but he was only one honest man in a city full of mobsters and crooked cops. The big heat was on.

On this day in movie history - Nightfall (1956):

Nightfall

directed by Jacques Tourneur,

written by Stirling Silliphant,

based on the novel by David Goodis,

was released in the United States on January 23, 1957.
Music by George Duning.

Cast:

Aldo Ray, Brian Keith, Anne Bancroft, Jocelyn Brando, James Gregory, Frank Albertson, Rudy Bond, Arline Anderson, Monty Ash, María Belmar, Orlando Beltran, Art Bucaro, Robert Cherry, George Cisar, Lillian Culver, Bess Flowers, Joan Fotre, Pat Jones, Lillian Kassan, Betty Koch, Jane Lynn, Eddie McLean, Gene Roth, Walter Smith, Annabelle Thiele, Maya Van Horn, Winifred Waring.

Born on this day – Jocelyn Brando:

Jocelyn Brando

Actress

Writer

November 18, 1919 – November 27, 2005

Credits:

87th Precinct (1961); A Question of Love (1978); Actor's Studio (1948–1949); Alcoa Premiere (1961); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1959–1961); Arrest and Trial (1963); Buckskin (1959); Bus Riley's Back in Town (1965); Checkmate (1961); China Venture (1953); Combat Fatigue Irritability (1945); Coronado 9 (1960); Dallas (1979); Dark Night of the Scarecrow (1981); Dark Night of the Scarecrow 2 (2022); Darkroom (1981); Dr. Kildare (1963); Frontier Circus (1961); General Electric Theater (1956–1960); Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff (1979); Here's Hollywood (1962); Ironside (1969); Kojak (1977); Kraft Theatre (1951); Kraft Theatre / The United States Steel Hour (1955–1956); Laramie (1960–1961); Little House on the Prairie (1975); Love of Life (1951–1980); Lux Playhouse (1959); M Squad (1959); Markham (1960); Mommie Dearest (1981); Mommie Dearest: Joan Lives On (2006); Movie Movie / Segments: Dynamite Hands / Baxter's Beauties of 1933 (1978); My Three Sons (1964); Nash Airflyte Theatre (1951); Nightfall (1956); Official Detective (1957); Omnibus / Segment: The Gold Dress (1953); One Step Beyond (1959); Richard Diamond, Private Detective (1958); Riverboat (1960); Shotgun Slade (1961); Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land (1983); State Trooper (1959); Step Down to Terror (1958); Studio 57 (1955); Tales of Wells Fargo (1961); Ten Wanted Men (1955); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1964); The Big Heat (1953); The Chase (1966); The Explosive Generation (1961); The Major and the Minor (1958); The Millionaire (1958); The Rebels: Marlon Brando (1981); The Tall Man (1961); The Ugly American (1963); The Virginian (1963–1969); The World of Mr. Sweeney (1955); Thriller (1960–1962); Wagon Train (1958–1963); Why Would I Lie? (1980).