Detective
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The story itself is simply a detectives story with the
detective
more interested in his menagerie of pets than in the quarterback who is missing.
Fortunately, the famous Belgian
detective
Hercule Poirot is holidaying on the same paddle steamer, and begins an investigation.
It begins with
detective
Rigby Reardon(The always funny Steve Martin), is hired by Juliet Forrest(The gorgeous and talented Rachel Ward) to solve the mysterious death of her father, Reardon starts to investigate, but will he get into deep?
Thank God for a fair minded police
detective
with even better instincts who is willing to put himself on the line to find the truth!
The expanded story (100X more stolen $$ !) retains the theme that criminals are doomed by the double-cross, and the resourceful
detective
is a better chess player once the plan goes awry.
The Breed starts sometime in '...The Near Future...' where homicide
detective
Steven Grant (Bokeem Woodbine) & his partner Phil (Reed Diamond) follow up a lead on a particularly nasty serial killer who's running around at the moment.
Meanwhile
detective
Jack Cates (Nick Nolte) for the past four years has been trying to discover the identity of a powerful drugs dealer known as the Iceman, after a shoot out with one of the Iceman's men Jack finds a picture of Reggie & figures he can help him find the Iceman.
I love
detective
shows.
I never saw a
detective
show with a fat, out of shape protagonist.
The same formulated
detective
series, of running around asking question, with the usual confrontational climax.
Clouseau disappearing, and this time, they have a clumsy American
detective
(Ted Wass) look for him.
Director James Fargo ('Forced Vengeance', 'Every Which Way But Loose', 'Caravans' and 'A Game for Vultures') has appeared in some of Eastwood's early films as assistant director, and here he paces it well-enough and let's the foundation play out more like an expansive low-key action fling filled with the constant buddy routines (as Harry is paired up with a young green-horn female
detective
fidgety played by Tyne Daly.
After her lascivious dentist is murdered, Sarandon goes against hubby's wishes and helps
detective
Raul Julia solve the case.
It is probably one of the better low budget
detective
yarns of the late 50s and is improved by having a producer (Victor Saville) very familiar with his material having produced two earlier Spillane/Hammer films.
A hardboiled homicide
detective
(Russell Hopton) trades verbal jabs with a wisecracking gal reporter (Lola Lane) as they attempt to unravel the mysterious killing," according to the DVD sleeve's synopsis.
Purist fans of Arthur Conan Doyle's legendary
detective
Sherlock Holmes usually heap scorn and derision on Sherlock Holmes In Washington as it is not based in any way on one of Conan Doyle's stories.
Cameron Mitchell plays a
detective
who investigates Weiss's death.
If you are a history buff, like a murder mystery and into "what if
" detective
plots - you will love this movie.
Wes Block (Clint Eastwood) is a New Orleans Homicide
detective
who's investigating a series of sex murders involving prostitutes and the further he delves into this seedy world.
Eugene Pallette is excellent as the
detective
who is always remarking how his knowledge of criminology leads him to suspect... Etienne Girardot is excellent as the coroner as is Helen Lowell as grandmother Stamm.
Renegades is set in Philadelphia where
detective
Buster McHenry (Kiefer Sutherland) is working undercover to try & bring down a dirty cop by arranging a robbery to steal six million dollars worth of diamonds, however things don't go to plan & the dirty cop doesn't show up & instead McHenry is forced to go through with the armed robbery with local mobster Marino (Robert Knepper) & his men.
Akira Kurosawa, along with his co-writer Ryuzo Kikushima, has here something very intriguing- a screenplay that really draws the viewer in, like opening up a tight, to-the-bone
detective
story by the likes of Dashiell Hammett (an influence on at least one Kurosawa film, by the way).
Phantom Raiders was the second (the first being 1939 Nick Carter - Master Detective) and the last film directed by Jacques Tourneur about the adventures of a popular
detective
Nick Carter whose character was created still in the end of the 19th century and who served as a protagonist of several films before this one during the silent era.
Here yet again Walter Pigeon plays the main part of invincible
detective
and is joined once more by his peculiar assistant Bartholomew known as the Bee-man (hilariously played by Donald Meek).
The kids are raised on
detective
novels and blah blah blah.
I liked the show and wished it could of lasted longer than it did, although I suppose it is a miracle that such a high styled campy escapist
detective
show like this would even have been revived in the mid-Nineties and went for 27 episodes!
As many who have left comments before me have observed, this film echos the
detective
stories of the 1930s and 1940s.
Michael Wilding is likable as the
detective
and Alastair Sim is delightfully dry as Wyman's father (at one point she says "I'll make her talk.
Denning and a
detective
constantly light up so much that the
detective
offers Richard to "try my special blend".
Over-the-hill gumshoe in Los Angeles seeks to avenge the killing of an old pal, another
detective
who had gotten himself involved in a case concerning a murdered broad, stolen stamps, a nickel-plated handgun, a cheating dolly, and a kidnapped pussycat.
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