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19/10/1951 Crime, Drama 1h 43m
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The love story of a man whose wife was more woman than angel!

Overview

Tells the story of one day in the lives of the various people who populate a police detective squad. An embittered cop, Det. Jim McLeod, leads a precinct of characters in their grim daily battle with the city's lowlife. The characters who pass through the precinct over the course of the day include a young petty embezzler, a pair of burglars, and a naive shoplifter.

  1. William Wyler

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Kirk Douglas

    Det. James McLeod

  2. Eleanor Parker

    Mary McLeod

  3. William Bendix

    Det. Lou Brody

  4. Cathy O'Donnell

    Susan Carmichael

  5. George Macready

    Karl Schneider

  6. Horace McMahon

    Lt. Monaghan

  7. Gladys George

    Miss Hatch

  8. Joseph Wiseman

    Charley Gennini

  9. Lee Grant

    Shoplifter

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Reviews

A review by John Chard
Written by John Chard on 2020-01-22
It's intense at the 21st Precinct.

An assortment of detectives and an assortment of criminals, all gathered together under the oppressive 21st Precint roof. It's a day that nobody present will ever forget - for better or worse...

Directed by William Wyler (Best years Of Our Lives, Ben-Hur & Wuthering Heights) and starring Kirk Douglas, Eleanor Parker, William Bendix, Cathy O'Donnell and Joseph Wiseman.

Detective Story is based on the smash hit Broadway play by Sidney Kingsley, adapted by Phillip Yordan and Robert Wyler, it's with much relief to me that the worry of it being a stagy p...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

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