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Rugged private detective Rigby Reardon (a splendidly deadpan performance by Steve Martin) is hired by the enticing Juliet Forrest (marvelously essayed to sultry perfection by Rachel Ward) to investigate the murder of her scientist father.
Enjoyed this great classic film from 1954 starring Fred MacMurray, (Paul Sheridan) who is a detective and gets involved with Lona McLane,(Kim Novak) who is connected with a bank robber and Lona cons Paul to kill her boyfriend so they can take the money for themselves.
There are many problems that face Paul and Lona and one of Paul's detective friends gets involved with a girl named Ann Stewart, (Dorothy Malone) who lives in the same apartment house as Lona and lives down the hall.
The man of many talents, Red Skelton, has some of his funniest moments on screen in this third and final installment of his amateur radio detective, Wally 'The Fox' Benton, series.
The rest of the cast are appalling, in particular the actors that play Baldwin's wife and fellow detective.
He is invited to work with a special investigation unit because he is a local (and a smart detective).
Ricardo Tubbs(..the ever smooth and cool Philip Michael Thomas), a cop in New York, traces a Colombian crimelord to Miami(..his brother was murdered by this man's gun-toting henchmen after a transfer of dope money, interfering with their drug sting)where the city's undercover detective Crockett(Don Johnson) has been attempting to catch him as well.
And yet again we have the brilliant Shimura playing off of Mifune, speaking in carefully modulated tones as he dispenses advice to the hotheaded young detective.
The movie starts out with a injured detective, and a mother/daughter burying there driver in a ditch, which they killed.
Then, after some weird dialog/interactions between the mother and daughter, the wounded detective shows up at their door.
Tommy Lister is on hand as a police detective looking for the missing daughter of an affluent man, and runs into the vampire clan that have kidnapped her.
A second plot has the detective's step-son going to Vegas to get hitched and running afoul of the same vampire clan.
As usual, Clint Eastwood gives an excellent performance as a detective in charge of finding a serial killer.
Lloyd Hopkins is an L.A. police detective that loves to take chances in his pursuit of an assassin who he believes is responsible for a crime wave in which women are murdered in a horrible manner.
From the moment a detective races down a couple of floors and catches a suicidal woman in mid-air to save her from falling 100 feet to her death, you know you are watching something VERY special.
Though physically not very accurate to Agatha Christie's description of the little Belgian detective, for this one movie everything worked and the discrepancy was not a problem.
Andy Garcia in his debut appearance is Ray Martinez, a police detective.
In the murder investigation, it gives you a pro-Hitler general who might not be the killer the detective is seeking, and an anti-Hitler one who MIGHT be.
Ian Hart also makes a different sort of Watson, but there is chemistry (and a bit of underlying tension!) between the detective and the good doctor.
Conan Doyle's original novella - often regarded as one of the finest detective stories ever written - is a pretty straightforward affair, one which would seem relatively a breeze to adapt for the screen.
I was impressed by the acting, particularly Harvey Keitel, who plays police detective John Woods.
Ted Gage(Daniel Cosgrove)is a disgraced serviceman who returns home and teams up with a spunky female detective Gina O'Bannon(Tamara Davies)to find out who killed his computer geek brother.
This ridiculous third act smacks of desperation, and leaves Gene Hackman (as a somewhat dirty detective) with nothing but absurdity to play opposite.
The film differs from the majority of slashers as much of it is told from the point of view of a detective in the form of voice-over.
Unlike more recent detective series that are little more than an hour of car chases, graphic bomb scenes and other gratuitous violence, Cannon showed a detective carefully and cleverly going about the business of solving perplexing crimes.
Moreover, unlike The Rockford Files and others which strain credibility by portraying a supposedly successful detective as always having trouble paying his bills, Cannon shows a very successful detective surrounded by the trappings of success such as a beautiful Mark IV and an expensive penthouse apartment.
The most Woodian character is a police detective who says (in true Wood fashion): "Give---me---a description and I'll send out an A (pause) P (pause) B. You just have to hear it!
Inspector Dermot Craddock (EDWARD FOX) is in charge of the case and as he happens to be the nephew of the spinster detective Miss Marple (ANGELA LANSBURY), they both investigate the case together.
You have Tony Shalhoub as Adrian Monk, the "defective detective," who is far too OCD for his own good.
1st watched 3/28/2004 - 4 out of 10(Dir-Keith Snyder): Unique but slow moving drama about a detective who is only given one week to live and hires someone to kill him so that he won't go out slowly.
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