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    Detective Story 1951 POSTER

    Detective Story

    1951

    English

    7.5

    8

    71%

    71%

    Action

    Crime

    detective

    detective story

    Drama

    film noir

    Film-Noir

    marriage crisis

    noir

    Romance

    suppressed past

    William Wyler William Wyler Director Joseph Wiseman Joseph Wiseman as Charley Gennini Horace McMahon Horace McMahon as Lt. Monaghan Eleanor Parker Eleanor Parker as Mary McLeod Lee Grant Lee Grant as Shoplifter
    Tells the story of one day in the lives of the various people who populate a police detective squad. An embittered cop, Det. Jim McLeod, leads a precinct of characters in their grim daily battle with the city's lowlife. The characters who pass through the precinct over the course of the day include a young petty embezzler, a pair of burglars, and a naive shoplifter.
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