Rating: NR
Genre:
Mystery
Release Date: 05/24/2005
SubTitles: English/Espanol
Dubbed: English/French/Espanol
Sound: DD1/DD2
Run Time: 113 Minutes
Flags: Violence, Adult Situations, Not For Children, Adult Language, Sexual Situations
Distributor/Studio: 20th Century Fox
Frank Sinatra gives a gritty performance in the
crime thriller The Detective. When
Teddy Leikman, the homosexual son of a politically connected department-store magnate, is murdered, detective
Joe Leland (
Frank Sinatra) is sent in to investigate.
Leland drags in
Teddy's psychotic former roommate
Felix Tesla (
Tony Musante) and forces a confession out of him; for his work on the case
Leland gets a promotion, which troubles him. Afterwards,
Norma MacIver (
Jacqueline Bisset), the widow of a well-heeled accountant, comes to see
Leland. Her husband was killed after falling off the grandstand at a racetrack -- but
Norma thinks he was pushed. She asks
Leland to investigate her husband's death. Reopening the case,
Leland discovers that the police are opposed to him scratching around any further, and after an attempt on his life, he uncovers some startling evidence that may connect the two deaths.
~ Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide
