The Big Combo (1955)

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Wikidata Q1498484, film, IMDb tt0047878, TMDB 22342: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only film by that title.

What a model would be handed about it, for corpus:ask.

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Came from

What the speakers say it drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

No line says it drew on another film or person.

Led to

What the speakers say drew on it, marked the same way.

Reservoir Dogs: 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): The Big Combo ⇒ Reservoir Dogs (the host's read). Per the host's notes, The Big Combo and Corbucci's Django inspired the scene of a cop torturing a chair (sic).
    “Joseph H. Lewis's filmed the big combo and Sergio Corbucci's 1966 spaghetti western Django inspired the scene”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:47:43 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)

Connected to

Gilda: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (coded queerness): The Big Combo → Gilda. Both 40s/50s noirs carried gay subtext that could not be said aloud.
    “the big combo, um, Lee Van Cleef and his partner, that's a gay couple.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Nightmare Alley’ and Our Favorite Films Noir, With Patton Oswalt! · 1:03:14 · Patton Oswalt (0.95 sure it was them)

Reservoir Dogs: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Reservoir Dogs → The Big Combo. Per the host's notes, The Big Combo and Corbucci's Django inspired the scene of a cop torturing a chair (sic).
    “Joseph H. Lewis's filmed the big combo and Sergio Corbucci's 1966 spaghetti western Django inspired the scene”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:47:43 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)

Where it came up

What was said about it, by kind

lineage (1)

  1. lineage (lineage): Reservoir Dogs → The Big Combo. Per the host's notes, The Big Combo and Corbucci's Django inspired the scene of a cop torturing a chair (sic).
    “Joseph H. Lewis's filmed the big combo and Sergio Corbucci's 1966 spaghetti western Django inspired the scene”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:47:43 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)

unmapped (1)

  1. unmapped (coded queerness): The Big Combo → Gilda. Both 40s/50s noirs carried gay subtext that could not be said aloud.
    “the big combo, um, Lee Van Cleef and his partner, that's a gay couple.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Nightmare Alley’ and Our Favorite Films Noir, With Patton Oswalt! · 1:03:14 · Patton Oswalt (0.95 sure it was them)

Fun items about it

  1. fun, about The Big Combo: Patton reads Lee Van Cleef and his partner as a gay couple the film could not say aloud.
    “it's too gay hitmen.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Nightmare Alley’ and Our Favorite Films Noir, With Patton Oswalt! · 1:03:23 · Patton Oswalt (0.90 sure it was them)

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