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Budget. $4.5 million [1] Box office. $6.5 million (rentals) [2] The Detective is a 1968 American neo-noir [3] crime drama film directed by Gordon Douglas, produced by Aaron Rosenberg, and starring Frank Sinatra, based on the 1966 novel of the same name by Roderick Thorp. [4]
The Detective: Directed by Gordon Douglas. With Frank Sinatra, Lee Remick, Ralph Meeker, Jack Klugman. While grappling with his wife's infidelity, an NYPD detective investigates the murder of a gay man, which he discovers is linked to official corruption involving sex and drugs.
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- Crime, Drama, Thriller
- Gordon Douglas
- 1968-05-28
Teddy Leikman (as James Inman) Tom Atkins. ... Harmon. Jacqueline Bisset. ... Norma MacIver. Rest of cast listed alphabetically: Mikel Angel.
The trouble with the flashbacks in "The Detective" is that they were apparently introduced for "artistic" reasons, are much too long, and destroy the film's dramatic continuity. Richard Lester's use of the flashback in "Petulia" is incomparably more effective. Mann is by now probably the leading knee-jerk liberal among Hollywood screenwriters.
When a gay man is viciously slain, Detective Joe Leland (Frank Sinatra) is put on the case. Joe eventually tracks down the victim's roommate, who confesses to the crime and is sentenced to death ...
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- Frank Sinatra
- Gordon Douglas
- Crime, Drama, LGBTQ+
Detective, The (1968) -- (Movie Clip) Male Caucasian Lying Nude On Floor Delivered in the opening to a tony Manhattan apartment, Frank Sinatra is the title character, gritty content and some complex shots by director Gordon Douglas, with Al Freeman Jr. (as Loughren), Jack Klugman (Schoenstein) and Robert Duvall (Nestor) introduced, in The ...
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The Detective, American crime thriller film, released in 1968, that was based on Roderick Thorp’s best-selling novel (1966) of the same name and featured one of the first mainstream discussions in American film of homosexuality. Frank Sinatra’s dramatic role, as the title character, was one of his last and one of his most intense.
