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Detective Story [Blu-ray]
by Kirk Douglas (Det. James McLeod),
Eleanor Parker (Mary),
William Bendix (Brody),
Lee Grant (Shoplifter),
Bert Freed (Dakis),
Frank Faylen (Gallagher),
George Macready (Karl Schneider),
Cathy O'Donnell (Susan Carmichael),
Horace McMahon (Lt. Monahan),
Gladys George (Miss Hatch),
Joseph Wiseman (Charles Gennini),
Gerald Mohr (Tami Giacoppetti),
Craig Hill (Arthur),
Michael Strong (Lewis Abbott),
Luis Van Rooten (Joe Feinson),
Warner Anderson (Endicott Sims),
Grandon Rhodes (O'Brien),
William 'Bill' Phillips (Callahan),
Russell Evans (Barnes,Patrolman Barnes),
Howard Joslin (Patrolman Keogh),
James Maloney (Mr. Pritchett),
Edmund Cobb (Ed),
Burt Mustin (Janitor),
Lee Miller (Policeman),
Mike Mahoney (Coleman),
Catharine Doucet (Mrs. Farragut,Mrs. Farragut),
Ann Codee (Frenchwoman),
Ralph Montgomery (Finney),
Bob Scott (Mulvey),
Harper Goff (Gallantz),
Charles Campbell (Newspaper Photographer),
Donald Kerr (Taxi Driver),
Kay Wiley (Hysterical Woman),
Pat Flaherty (Desk Sergeant),
Jack Shea (Desk Sergeant #2),
William Wyler (Director,Screenwriter),
William Wyler (Director,Producer,Screenwriter),
Lee Garmes (Cinematographer),
Earl Hedrick (Art Director),
Hal Pereira (Art Director),
Robert Swink (Editor),
Philip Yordan (Screenwriter),
Philip Yordan (Screenwriter),
Sidney Kingsley (Screenwriter,Author),
Sidney Kingsley (Screenwriter),
Farciot Edouart (Special Effects),
Miklós Rózsa (Composer),
Miklós Rózsa (Composer),
Victor Young (Composer),
Victor Young (Composer),
Leon Becker (Sound Effects),
Emile Kuri (Set Design)
Format: Blu-ray
ISBN: 738329261122
Publication Date: 11/29/2022
Edition Description: Remastered / Wide Screen / Subtitled
Sidney Kingsley's Broadway play Detective Story was praised for its realistic view of an event-filled day in a single police precinct station. The film, directed by meticulous taskmaster William Wyler, manages to retain this realism, even allowing for the star-turn performance of Kirk Douglas. A stickler for the letter of the law, Detective James McLeod (Douglas) is not averse to using strong-arm methods on criminals and witnesses alike in bringing lawbreakers to justice. He is particularly rough on a first-time offender (Craig Hill), on whom the rest of the force is willing to go easy because of the anguish of his girlfriend (Cathy O'Donnell). But McLeod's strongest invective is reserved for shady abortion doctor Karl Schneider (George MacReady); McLeod all but ruins the case against Schneider by beating him up in the patrol wagon. When McLeod discovers that his own wife (Eleanor Parker) had many years earlier lost a baby in one of Schneider's operations, and that the baby's father was gangster Tami Giacoppetti (Gerald Mohr), it is too much for the detective to bear. Punctuating the grim proceedings with brief moments of humor is future Oscar winner Lee Grant, reprising her stage role as a timorous shoplifter; it would be her last Hollywood assignment until the early 1960s, thanks to the iniquities of the blacklist. Despite small concessions to Hollywood censorship, Detective Story largely upheld the power of its theatrical original, and it forms a clear precursor to such latter-day urban police dramas as NYPD Blue.
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