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The Laughing Policeman (released in the UK as An Investigation of Murder) is a 1973 American neo-noir thriller film loosely based on the 1968 novel of the same name by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö. The setting of the story is transplanted from Stockholm to San Francisco.
The Laughing Policeman: Directed by Stuart Rosenberg. With Walter Matthau, Bruce Dern, Louis Gossett Jr., Albert Paulsen. In San Francisco, California, one victim in a mass murder is a police detective. His partner and a new partner investigate in the city's seamy side.
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- Crime, Drama, Thriller
- Stuart Rosenberg
- 1974-01-23
“The Laughing Policeman” is an awfully good police movie: taut, off-key, filled with laconic performances. It provides the special delight we get from gradually unraveling a complicated case. It’s almost the kind of movie, indeed, to blast loose a detective-novel fan from Ross Macdonald.
NEW. When a gunman opens fire on a crowded city bus in San Francisco, Detective Dave Evans (Anthony Costello) is killed, along with the man he'd been following in relation to a murder. Evans ...
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- Stuart Rosenberg
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- Walter Matthau
The Laughing Policeman (released in the UK as An Investigation of Murder) is a 1973 American neo-noir thriller film loosely based on the 1968 novel of the same name by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö. The setting of the story is transplanted from Stockholm to San Francisco.
- 112 min
In San Francisco, eight passengers and the driver of a bus are killed by a passenger with machine gun. Police detectives Jake Martin, Leo Larsen and James Larrimore find the body of Martin's partner Dave Evans among the victims.
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