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  1. Budget. $4.5 million [1] Box office. $6.5 million (rentals) [2] The Detective is a 1968 American neo-noir [3] crime drama film directed by Gordon Douglas, produced by Aaron Rosenberg, and starring Frank Sinatra, based on the 1966 novel of the same name by Roderick Thorp. [4]

  2. The Detective: Directed by Gordon Douglas. With Frank Sinatra, Lee Remick, Ralph Meeker, Jack Klugman. While grappling with his wife's infidelity, an NYPD detective investigates the murder of a gay man, which he discovers is linked to official corruption involving sex and drugs.

    • (4.2K)
    • Crime, Drama, Thriller
    • Gordon Douglas
    • 1968-05-28
  3. Released May 28th, 1968, 'The Detective' stars Frank Sinatra, Lee Remick, Ralph Meeker, Jack Klugman The PG movie has a runtime of about 1 hr 54 min, and received a user score of 60 (out of 100 ...

  4. Detective, The (1968) -- (Movie Clip) Male Caucasian Lying Nude On Floor Delivered in the opening to a tony Manhattan apartment, Frank Sinatra is the title character, gritty content and some complex shots by director Gordon Douglas, with Al Freeman Jr. (as Loughren), Jack Klugman (Schoenstein) and Robert Duvall (Nestor) introduced, in The ...

    • Gordon Douglas, Richard Lang
    • Frank Sinatra
  5. The trouble with the flashbacks in "The Detective" is that they were apparently introduced for "artistic" reasons, are much too long, and destroy the film's dramatic continuity. Richard Lester's use of the flashback in "Petulia" is incomparably more effective. Mann is by now probably the leading knee-jerk liberal among Hollywood screenwriters.

  6. The Detective (1968) The Detective (1968) View more photos Movie Info Synopsis When a gay man is viciously slain, Detective Joe Leland (Frank Sinatra) is put on the case.

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    • Crime, Drama, LGBTQ+
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  8. As I neared the big 5,000 in terms of movies watched (at least according to my admittedly-crapola memory and IMDb), for some odd reason, I thought of Frank Sinatra, whose films I had seen quite a few of recently, and I decided to check out the private-eye films he made in the 60's, when his superstar status, both in terms of acting and performing, began to wane, as tastes changed in that tumultuous decade.