Richard Conte News

"The Big Combo by Philip Yordan" - that's the title credit to this amusingly pulpy 1955 crime movie, playing at the AFI Silver on Saturday at 7:15 p.m. and Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. The reputation of the director, Joseph H. Lewis, has ballooned because of the cult fervor for "Gun Crazy," his feral 1949 version of the Bonnie-and-Clyde legend.

Duration: 1:51:10 CC Stereo TVPG After a woman places an ad in the Chicago Times offering a reward for information that will exonerate her sone, newsman P.J. McNeal is assigned to look into the 11-year old story of Frank Wiecek , sentenced to life in prison for killing a cop.

Airs Saturday, October 10 at 9:00 PM In this documentary-inspired thriller, P.J. McNeal is a reporter who is asked by his editor to look into a potential story: their newspaper has been carrying an ad offering a substantial reward for information regarding the murder of a policeman that occurred eleven years ago.