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Actor Darren McGavin plays private detective Mike Hammer.
In my opinion, it is the most beautiful state in the union!!! Tom Selleck is a fabulously famous movie star now, but I always associated him with being "Magnum" the totally cool detective!! "Magnum" is one of my favorite shows in all of television!! Tom Selleck is a friendly type of actor who has a huge following!! "Magnum P.I." was so popular because your average guy had a definite identifiability with Magnum!!
This comical sci-fi cop adventure is set in the future and follows the exploits of a New York detective who is given superhuman powers from a mysterious Kabuki.
Instead of the usual somewhat insipid detective series films, her Miss Withers was a smart-aleck and tough lady--not some pampered playboy or Chinese detective.
Plus, it was a great casting decision to have her work with police detective James Gleason and give him better than usual writing for such a role.
Another biologist, previously working on a secret government project, is being protected by a detective who is forced to battle the transparent assassin while the government tries to track him down.
This crime thriller centers on a detective named Megan (Eliza Dushku) who investigates a series of child murders in upstate New York.
Lugosi meanwhile plays Stevens' butler Peters and generally appears just at the opportune (or is that inopportune) moment to scare the willies out of and arouse suspicion in The Ritz Brothers detective characters Mulligan, Garrity and Harrigan.
Jim Davis, of Dallas, is a silly police detective who endlessly babbles his philosophy about the "freaks and weirdos."
One the night of the killing a butcher is the suspect, detective Maigret(the great Jean Gavin) becomes involved into investigation and pulls off a cat and mouse game with the killer.
A detective and a scientist are trying to deal with the situation, but end up on the run from the mad killer.
In detective films in the present, the police station is often seen as a messy but friendly place with coffee mugs and paper everywhere.
This pathetic movie about a talking detective dog shows nothing but contempt of people in general and children in particular.
Kim Taggart plays detective Vega, who is lead detective on a very puzzling case.
The uncomfortable spot he finds himself in lies between them and the law, personified by Sterling Hayden as a tough, unforgiving police detective.
Eddie Quillan was an odd choice to play the lead in this detective film because he was essentially a small smart-allecky little pip-squeak--not the brilliant or studly hero you'd expect to see in this type of film.
At best it's a mediocre time-passer and not the equal of other series detective B-films from the period.
In the early 1930's, the marvelous character actress Edna May Oliver starred in a three-film series as spinster school teacher/murder detective Hildegarde Withers.
Jeffrey Combs is a detective who wishes to know why he did it as Faust(in human form at this point)is catatonic.
"Foyle's War" is all about Michael Kitchen as Christopher Foyle, a soft-spoken civilian detective who unravels murder mysteries using his deductive prowess while Britain gears up for WWII.
The 1988 sequel to one of the most successful movies of all time finds Eddie Murphy reprising his role as Detroit police detective Axel Foley, and once again playing a fish out of water as he tries to solve a series of heists in Beverly Hills that may be connected to the attempted murder of his friend, a Beverly Hills police captain (Ronny Cox).
Detective Hanahan (Joe Devlin) has the right idea, though, and suspects that local hood Nick Gordon (Jon Dawson) and his moll Mimi (Fifi D'Orsay) are implicated in some way in the girl's death.
It goes without saying that by this time detective stories and murder mysteries arrive with a great deal of thespian baggage.
And since when can a sheriff and detective reveal evidence about a case to their families?
Kurosawa uses the actors that he uses in so many classic movies - Toshiro Mifune (a breakout role for Mifune, who had been typecast as a yakuza in his movie roles thus far), Takashi Shumura (Detective Sato) and the first movie appearance for Minoru Chiaki.
The story of a gut-shot Greek detective in search of a mysterious "Laura" who stumbles upon the house where she's living with her "mother" (who's probably neither that or female, for that matter) gets stranger by the turn, and does not shy away from bizarre sex, ultra-violence, and regurgitative gross-outs in the process.
There is a private detective who drives around a beat up piece of junk something like a "Colombo" style vehicle only Worse.
Clint Eastwood is Wes Block, a detective with what is pretty much a triple lifestyle.
"Lookwell" is the thinking man's "Police Squad," a fiercely funny sendup of the TV detective genre.
Jim Carrey burst into the movie scene with his trademark manic delivery in this mock detective story.
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