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Hardly believable as a great amateur detective.
Architect Agutter is haunted by her dead husband in a skyscraper she designed, and when people start getting knocked off mysteriously detective Moriarty comes in to investigate.
Andy Garcia is also quite likeable in the role he's best at: solid support work as a police detective pal of Russell's journalist who inadvertantly gets as much press as the glory-seeking villain.
Good thing that detective Hercule Poirot (Peter Ustinov) is aboard.
Michael Arlen's radio-serial detective returns for another movie mystery (actually, it's the Falcon's brother this time, with George Sanders having since exited from the role and his real-life sibling Tom Conway assuming his duties).
I don't know if I could put up with him (the detective) irl, but its one of the most interesting shows that has been aired recently.
Leading from the front are the slightly wooden John Hodiak - marriage to Ann Baxter didn't improve his acting -, newcomer Nancy Guild, Lloyd Nolan and Richard Conte and Mank keeps the balls spinning in the air leaving little time for awkward questions - like why would Conte - who'd got away with murder for three years, introduce Hodiak to a detective friend (Nolan) knowing that Hodiak was trying to get to to bottom of the very murder for which he, Conte, was responsible.
Don Knotts is the overbearing lead detective as Tim Conway is the clumsy assistant trying to solve a homicide at the huge mansion.
Because Detective Oh (Yes that is his name), dies while the main villain is in the custody of the lead detective.
Harvey Keitel was great as the detective investigating the murder.
But the real stars of the show are Agnes Moorehead, as an eccentric mystery writer who decides to pull off the million-dollar bank heist, and the steel-clawed killer known only as "The Bat." Price's devious doctor is but one of a rogues' gallery of suspects that include a Johnny-on-the-spot police detective, a chauffeur turned butler with a checkered past, and a housekeeper with echoes of Rebecca's Mrs. Danvers.
In New York, the alcoholic and decadent detective Jack Mosley (Bruce Willis) is assigned to deliver a prisoner to the court sixteen blocks far from his precinct in 118 minutes.
Eddie Bunker (Mos Def) made a deal with the D.A. office and will identify and testify against a dirty detective.
Sure, it's a funny little detective show that can occasionally be downright clever in its plots and dialogue.
I daresay if a new, lighthearted detective show attempted to portray a character with, say, no legs, the subject would be taken a bit more seriously.
In Hillerman's books, Joe Leaphorn was a "legendary detective" who was also a highly educated scholar, at least as if not much more knowledgeable about Navajo and Native American culture and religion than Chee.
We are led to believe she is naive to the ways of the world and yet knows to how to find and hire a private detective and gather enough information to 'gaslight' another person so cleverly.
Jay Richardson virtually replays his 'Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers' part as an aged detective who calls everyone around him "kid."
The title character is a former police detective who suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).
He, & his accomplice (Michael Henderson), drive off to a wood where they bury Frances alive in a wooden coffin, she has about 24 hours worth of air left & the clock is ticking... Detective Madeline Foster (Maura Tierney) & her partner Jesse (Paul Calderon) are called onto the task force to find Frances & apprehend her kidnappers.
If you like old time bounty hunter, private eye, or detective movies, you'll probably like Cowboy Bebop.
You won't see Leslie's or the private detective's mutilated body, but we all know what happened to them.
A mother and a daughter live in a large home,playing games of sexual domination and re-enacting the murders of various servants that they have hired and then killed.A private detective called Singapore Sling comes searching for Laura,a woman he is fixated on but whom they have killed.They imprison him,using poor guy as a sex toy and torturing him."Singapore
Isn't he rich enough to hire a private detective to catch her in the act?
One can also learn what it meant to be an oppressed black man, a junior mobster or a tired NYC detective in that late sixties era.
Detective Porhowski (Sarah-Jane Redmond) is trying to find out what's happening in her town.
Pacino is helped in his search by Detective Sherman played great by the very funny John Goodman this was one of the better performances from Goodman.
Adam West's character Ty Lookwell seemed too one-not to me to every career a series (we get it he's an actor who played a detective in the past and now believes he can be a real detective, but is an idiot), and the writing by the usually capable and very funny Conan O'Brian and Robert Smigal falls flat here, I hardly cracked a smile.
He plays a divorced detective who's probably lonelier than most of the people who place such adverts and falls madly in love with Ellen Barkin, the prime suspect.
It's going to take some clever detective work to uncover the truth and bring those responsible to justice," according to the DVD sleeve's synopsis.
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