The Big Steal

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The Big Steal

1949,

1h 11m,

Crime/

Drama

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500+ Ratings

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Army officer Duke Halliday (Robert Mitchum) is headed to Mexico to track down a con artist named Jim Fiske (Patric Knowles). Along the way, he meets the beautiful Joan Graham (Jane Greer), who, like Halliday, was double-crossed by the shifty Fiske for a large sum of money. Complicating their search is Vincent Blake (William Bendix), a military man out to get Halliday, and Ortega (Ramon Novarro), a police inspector who is patiently waiting to see how the various conflicts play out.

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Yasser Medina

Cinefilia

Feb 20, 2022

6/10

As a police noir, it has a more or less fast-paced start that is made up of chases and shootouts, but it crosses regular roads that keep it on an easily predictable ground. Full review in Spanish

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Josephine O'Neill

Daily Telegraph (Australia)

Mar 25, 2019

RKO couid have saved its money and kept the cast on the back-lot at home.

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Raquel Stecher

Out of the Past

Nov 27, 2018

For fans of Out of the Past (1947), seeing Mitchum and Greer together again, albeit in a very different type of movie, is a treat. It's not a great film but it's enjoyable viewing for Noirvember.

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Dennis Schwartz

Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews

Oct 28, 2009

B+

In this taut cat-and-mouse tale, all concerned are in top form.

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Jeffrey M. Anderson

Combustible Celluloid

Aug 9, 2007

Siegel packs lots of chases and action into 72 minutes, with a great ending.

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Emanuel Levy

EmanuelLevy.Com

Jul 3, 2005

3/5

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Theodore P

Sep 13, 2018

Don Seigel gives with a little advertisement for Mexican tourism as a chase for stolen Army money breaks over Mexico's highways. This isn't noir, or even a chase film (although it could apply to either), but rather an excuse for Greer and Mitchum to make with the goo-goo eyes at each other. Seigel throws in a fist fight or two lest the gents get too impatient. Decent. John Qualen, character actor extraordinaire, drops his nearly ever-present Swede accent for one movie, reason enough to watch!

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Leia M

Dec 31, 2017

Exciting gangster/crime film. It's barely over an hour too so it's very fast-paced. Minor SPOILER WARNING for "Out of the Past" which came out 2 years earlier, also starring Mitchum and Greer: in case their tragic love story still hurts, this pairing of the two might serve as a remedy. Mitchum is his usual swaggerly self.

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Don Siegel

Director

Robert Mitchum

Lt. Duke Halliday

Jane Greer

Joan Graham

William Bendix

Capt. Vincent Blake

Patric Knowles

Jim Fiske

Ramon Novarro

Inspector General Ortega

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Synopsis

Army officer Duke Halliday (Robert Mitchum) is headed to Mexico to track down a con artist named Jim Fiske (Patric Knowles). Along the way, he meets the beautiful Joan Graham (Jane Greer), who, like Halliday, was double-crossed by the shifty Fiske for a large sum of money. Complicating their search is Vincent Blake (William Bendix), a military man out to get Halliday, and Ortega (Ramon Novarro), a police inspector who is patiently waiting to see how the various conflicts play out.

Director: Don Siegel
Producer: Jack J. Gross
Screenwriter: Daniel Mainwaring, Gerald Drayson Adams
Production Co: RKO Radio Pictures Inc.
Genre: Crime, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jun 29, 1949, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Jan 1, 2009
Runtime: 1h 11m

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