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The Detective

The Detective

5.9/ 10

TMDB Rating

77

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1968

Release Year

114 min

Runtime

Crime
Mystery
Drama

Overview

New York City Police detective Joe Leland investigates the grisly murder of Teddy Leikman, the gay son of a politically influential department store owner. While investigating, he discovers links to official corruption in NYC in this drama that delves into a world of sex and drugs, homophobia, homosexuality and bisexuality.

Keywords

homophobia
police detective
lgbt
gay theme

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Reviews(2)

7.5avg rating
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talisencrw

August 4, 2016

8
8/10

As I neared the big 5,000 in terms of movies watched (at least according to my admittedly-crapola memory and IMDb), for some odd reason, I thought of Frank Sinatra, whose films I had seen quite a few of recently, and I decided to check out the private-eye films he made in the 60's, when his supersta

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John Chard

John Chard

January 2, 2019

7
7/10

Joe Leland - A decent cop on a murky landscape. The Detective is directed by Gordon Douglas and adapted to screenplay by Abby Mann from the novel written by Roderick Thorp. It stars Frank Sinatra, Lee Remick, Ralph Meeker, Jack Klugman, Horace MacMahon, Lloyd Bochner and Jacqueline Bissset. A Pan

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