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Detective Story

Name: Detective Story
Genre: Crime, Drama
Released: 1951-10-19
Duration: 103 min
Rating: 7.1

★ 7,1 /10 (168 Votes)

1951 EN 103 min

Overview

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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Release date

19/10/1951

Votes

168

Popularity

2.1

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Genres

Crime Drama

Status

Released

Language

Runtime

103 min

Kirk Douglas

Det. James McLeod

Eleanor Parker

Mary McLeod

William Bendix

Det. Lou Brody

Cathy O'Donnell

Susan Carmichael

George Macready

Karl Schneider

Horace McMahon

Lt. Monaghan

Gladys George

Miss Hatch

Joseph Wiseman

Charley Gennini

Lee Grant

Shoplifter

Gerald Mohr

Tami Giacoppetti

Frank Faylen

Det. Gallagher

Craig Hill

Arthur Kindred

Michael Strong

Lewis Abbott

Luis van Rooten

Joe Feinson

Bert Freed

Det. Dakis

Warner Anderson

Endicott Sims

Grandon Rhodes

Det. O'Brien

William Phillips

Det. Pat Callahan

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Russell Evans

Patrolman Barnes

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Charles Campbell

Newspaper Photographer (uncredited)

Edmund Cobb

Ed (uncredited)

Ann Codee

French Woman (uncredited)

Catherine Doucet

Mrs. Farragut (uncredited)

Pat Flaherty

Desk Sergeant (uncredited)

Harper Goff

Dave Gallantz (uncredited)

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Howard Joslin

Patrolman Gus Keogh (uncredited)

Donald Kerr

Taxi Driver (uncredited)

George Magrill

Policeman (uncredited)

Mike Mahoney

Det. Coleman (uncredited)

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James Maloney

Albert R. Pritchett (uncredited)

Lee Miller

Policeman (uncredited)

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Ralph Montgomery

Policeman Finney (uncredited)

Burt Mustin

Willie the Janitor (uncredited)

Jack Perry

Man in Custody (uncredited)

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Robert S. Scott

Mulvey (uncredited)

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Jack Shea

Desk Sergeant (uncredited)

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Kay Wiley

Hysterical Woman (uncredited)

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It's intense at the 21st Precinct. An assortment of detectives and an assortment of criminals, all gathered together under the oppressive 21st Precint roof. It's a day that nobody present will ever forget - for better or worse... Directed by William Wyler (Best years Of Our Lives, Ben-Hur & Wuthering Heights) and starring Kirk Douglas, Eleanor Parker, William Bendix, Cathy O'Donnell and Joseph Wiseman. Detective Story is based on the smash hit Broadway play by Sidney Kingsley, adapted by Phillip Yordan and Robert Wyler, it's with much relief to me that the worry of it being a stagy p…

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