The Detective
Summary:
Frank Sinatra gives a gritty performance in the crime thriller The Detective. When Teddy Leikman, the homosexual son of a politically connected department-store magnate, is murdered, detective Joe Leland (Frank Sinatra) is sent in to investigate. Leland drags in Teddy's psychotic former roommate Felix Tesla (Tony Musante) and forces a confession out of him; ... Full Summary >>
Cast:
Frank Sinatra - (Joe Leland)
Lee Remick - (Karen)
Ralph Meeker - (Curran)
Jacqueline Bisset - (Norma Maciver)
Jack Klugman - (Dave)
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Review:
A lurid, jumbled storyline and a Frank Sinatra-on-autopilot performance are major setbacks for this ambitious -- if reactionary -- late-'60s crime thriller. Though it predates the notorious Cruising by more than a decade, The Detective peppers its plot with the grisly particulars of a murder of a young, prominent gay man in Manhattan. A... Continue >>
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