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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9781415713570
Format: Black & White, Full Screen, NTSC
ISBN: 141571357X
Label: Paramount
Manufacturer: Paramount
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Paramount
Region Code: 1
Release Date: October 25, 2005
Running Time: 103 minutes
Sales Rank: 37306
Studio: Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: 1951-11
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Product Description:
An embittered cop leads a precinct of characters in their grim battle with the city's lowlife while wife Parker suffers from neglect. Based on Sydney Kingsley's Broadway play, this seminal movie was a prototype for everything from 'Hill Street Blues' to 'NYPD Blue.' Academy Award Nominations: 4, including Best Director, Best Actress--Eleanor Parker, Best Screenplay.
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Rating:  - Take a couple of drop-dead pills.
"Detective Story," made in 1951 in gritty Black & White, plays like the blueprint for just about every "Police Procedural" that's come after it, from England's "Z-Cars," and "The Sweeney," to "Hill Street Blues," "NYPD Blue," even Sidney Lumet's superlative "Q & A," right up to "Law & Order SVU," and the seemingly endless iterations of "C.S.I."
In a downtown New York precinct, events and characters revolve around the resident cops who trade wisecracks, gallows humor, and ... Read More
Rating:  - IF IBSEN HAD WRITTEN A PLAY CALLED "A DETECTIVE'S HOUSE" . . .
Ever had the feeling you've seen something before--and that it was better before? Like the main plot of THE LION KING is a rip-off of HAMLET--and HAMLET is better? Try watching DETECTIVE STORY back-to-back with Ibsen's A DOLL'S HOUSE. (Buying/renting Anthony Hopkins' and Claire Bloom's 1973 film version would be a handy way to do this.) It is almost uncanny how these two works center around the relationship between an uptight husband and a wife who has done something he totally freaks out about when ... Read More
Rating: - A gritty prototype. I see bits of Hill Street Blues in it.
This classic police mellow-drama is a perfect fit for the talents of young Kirk Douglas. He is an inflexible, angry cop. He is righteous with out compassion for any accused showing up at this rundown New York cop shop. They must be all guilty, otherwise they wouldn't be there. He has set himself up as jury & judge. There is one particular case that has haunted him for years. He consistently violates police procedure to say nothing of the law to apprehend those he believes to be guilty. One of ... Read More
Rating: - Detective Story
Before "Homicide" or "Hill Street Blues" came this gritty, hard-hitting cop drama based on Sidney Kingsley's play. Honed to tense perfection by Wyler, the film is a showcase for fine, colorful ensemble acting by William Bendix (as the no-nonsense lieutenant), Lee Grant (reprising her role as a mousy shoplifter), Bert Freed (as McLeod's sensitive partner), and Joseph Wiseman (as a hilariously "innocent" Italian burglar). But it's Douglas's fierce, tragic performance as a modern lawman who still sees the ... Read More
Rating: - Great vehicle for Kirk Douglas' acting talents
Kirk Douglas has always excelled in roles where he plays the maverick loner, walking the fine line between anger and insanity. Thus his role as Det. Jim McLeod in "Detective Story" is a real showcase for his acting talents. This is not a crime drama in the conventional sense where there is any real action or crime to solve, even though you have a room full of New York City police detectives on screen for just about the whole movie. Instead it is a character study of Jim McLeod, played by Kirk Douglas. McLeod's ... Read More
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