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A typecast buffoon appears from nowhere impersonating a clumsy Englishman who plays the detective, and even other characters seem entangled into providing comedy relief.
I got it because it was directed and has a choice cameo by none other than Detective Meldrick Lewis!! Well,okay,Clark Johnson,one of my faves from "Homicide:Life on the Street" and a veteran (mostly) TV director.
Robert Culp, who would match wits with Peter Falk's detective in several future installments, is terrific as the short-tempered head of a sophisticated private detective agency who murders a client's wife when she refuses to cave-in to his blackmail schemes.
It details the struggle between a committed detective against the dedicated ignorance of the corrupted communist regime in Russia during the 80's.
He is a plainclothes detective who tracks down a crew of villains, ranging from all types of visually original characters such as Flattop to The Blank to Big Boy Caprice.
Who would have imagined that within a decade he would win an academy award for acting, and go on to play many roles as a tough detective or leader in combat.
That's a failing if you really want authenticity about a New York detective, particularly when you compare it to "Naked City" which was filmed on the streets of the city.
Another trip to the altar for Bulldog Drummond is averted when at a pre-wedding gathering in Switzerland a Swiss detective is murdered and an artificial diamond, courtesy of its inventor Halliwell Hobbes to bride and groom John Howard and Louise Campbell.
Among the characters to whom we are introduced during the film are a detective, who writes a book about these events; and a doctor, who helps capture the never-aging bloodsucker.
It's your basic detective story but with torture, bizarre erotica, and outstanding overacting.
Pursuit to Algiers starts as the world's foremost detective Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) & his faithful assistant Dr. Watson (Nigel Bruce) are about to head up to Scotland for a holiday when the Prime Minister (Frederick Warlock) of an obscure Europeon country named Rovenia ask's for their help.
I have seen this film many times but each time i enjoy watching it, it's the best film I have ever seen, Antonio Banderas did his best , he's a Cuban man loving an American girl but there's a problem : She was such a lier girl and a thief as well .Simultaneously she was in love with another man so after a while she took all Banderas money and ran away, Banderas started to find her in order to kill her .He Employs a detective to do so but guess who the detective is : It's her lover missing her too and is searching for her.What would happen next?
After being kissed by a kabuki master, Harry Griswold (police detective) transforms into the superhero Kabukiman.
The story was actually kind of interesting; a detective who's life was taken away is given a second chance due to a symbiotic parasite, but in exchange, must feed off human bodies to maintain both himself and the parasite.
Near the end, when the female detective was sitting at the bench with the two guards in the towers, what went on there?
Shot like a noir detective film with all the action and speed of a spy thriller, this film set a new benchmark for the sniper/hit-man genre.
This is a terrific piece of film noir that is paying homage to the great detective mysteries of the forties.
I can't understand why it is not yet out on DVD---I purchased Potter's "Singing Detective" last year and I am anxiously awaiting this one---someone please light a fire under the powers that be in England so that we can all enjoy this treasure in its proper format.
Although Mitchell's character is not a detective, this plays a lot like a detective film, and director Cahn is a master at pacing, so despite the miniscule budget (Havana is evoked by a few small sets and a few California exteriors with Spanish-language signs on them!), the film plays like a good little paperback-original mystery novel--especially so since Mitchell provides voice-over narration here and there to speed things along and to mention things that would be too expensive to show on camera.
Although a low-budget programmer that is only 67 minutes long and was no doubt made in a few weeks, PIER 5, HAVANA provides good, honest, hard-boiled entertainment and plays like a good 1950s detective TV show.
It works both as a detective story and a social piece.
With the help of a smarty young female police detective (Charlize Theron), Jones starts unraveling the truth behind his son's death.
It's a brilliant slapstick parody of the spy/private eye genres with the Baadshah of Bollywood himself, Shahrukh Khan, hamming it up gloriously as a slightly dim-witted private detective who is innocently drawn into a conspiracy to assassinate the prime minister of India.
When a Detective talks to the Surgeon I though the movie switched to slow motion or someone dropped downers in my drink.
Mike Conners plays Detective Dinardo, a New York detective investigating a series of ghastly murders of various residents in high-rise apartment complex.
Monk is a great detective show that you can sometimes solve along with Monk if you are a genius.
The first installment of a third-rate detective series, featuring a former safe-cracker, Blackie (Chester Morris), his sidekick the Runt (Charles Wagenheim), and the impatient Inspector Farraday (Richard Lane).
Eusebio Poncola, who starred in the brilliant Spanish detective series, "The Adventures of Pepe Carvahlo", plays Nestor, a wealthy local who introduces himself to Marcus.
And of course "Cannon".The plot has been described already: William Conrad starred as Frank Cannon, a heavy set private detective who took (and invariably solved) cases of interest.
Peter Ustinov with his mustaches is wonderful as the renowned and meticulous Belgian detective, Poirot.
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