production_company the undercover man
The Big Combo is a 1955 film noir crime film directed by Joseph H . Lewis and photographed by cinematographer John Alton , with music by David Raksin . ___MASK47___ Industries , Inc . ( known professionally as ___MASK47___ and Columbia , and formerly CBC Film Sales Corporation ) is an American film studio , production company and film distributor that is a member of the Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group , a division of Sony Entertainment ' s Sony Pictures subsidiary of the Japanese conglomerate Sony . The studio was founded in 1918 as Cohn - Brandt - Cohn Film Sales by brothers Jack and Harry Cohn and Jack ' s best friend Joe Brandt , released its first feature film in August 1922 . It adopted the ___MASK47___ name in 1924 , and went public two years later . Its name is derived from " Columbia ", a national personification of the United States , which is used as the studio ' s logo . In its early years , it was a minor player in Hollywood , but began to grow in the late 1920s , spurred by a successful association with director Frank Capra . With Capra and others , Columbia became one of the primary homes of the screwball comedy . In the 1930s , Columbia ' s major contract stars were Jean Arthur and Cary Grant . In the 1940s , Rita Hayworth became the studio ' s premier star and propelled their fortunes into the late 1950s . Rosalind Russell , Glenn Ford , and William Holden also became major stars at the studio . John Alton A . S . C . ( October 5 , 1901  June 2 , 1996 ), born Johann Jacob Altmann , in Sopron / Ödenburg , Kingdom of Hungary , Austria - Hungary , was an American cinematographer . Alton won an Academy Award for the cinematography of " An American in ___MASK55___ " ( 1951 ), becoming the first Hungarian - born person to do so . The Undercover Man is a 1949 American crime drama film noir starring Glenn Ford . This was one of a number of noirs directed by Joseph H . Lewis , who went on to helm Gun Crazy and The Big Combo . The drama features Glenn Ford , Nina Foch , James Whitmore , among others . Nina Foch ( born Nina Consuelo Maud Fock ; April 20 , 1924  December 5 , 2008 ) was a Dutch - American actress of film , stage , and television . After signing a contract with ___MASK47___ at age nineteen , the tall , blonde Foch became a regular in the studio ' s horror pictures and films noir before establishing herself as a leading lady in the mid - 1940s through the 1950s , often playing roles as cool , aloof sophisticates . Her career spanned six decades , consisting of over fifty feature films and over one hundred television appearances .