The Detective

New York City Police detective Joe Leland investigates the grisly murder of Teddy Leikman, the gay son of a politically influential department store owner. While investigating, he discovers links to official corruption in NYC in this drama that delves into a world of sex and drugs, homophobia, homosexuality and bisexuality.

Cast

Frank Sinatra

as Det. Sgt. Joe Leland

Lee Remick

as Karen Wagner Leland

Ralph Meeker

as Curran

Jack Klugman

as Dave Schoenstein

Horace McMahon

as Capt. Tom Farrell

Lloyd Bochner

as Dr. Wendell Roberts

William Windom

as Colin MacIver

Tony Musante

as Felix Tesla

Al Freeman Jr.

as Robbie Loughlin

Robert Duvall

as Nestor

Reviews

talisencrw

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 supersta...

John Chard

Joe Leland - A decent cop on a murky landscape. The Detective is directed by Gordon Douglas and adapted to screenplay by Abby Mann from the novel written by Roderick Thorp. It stars Frank Sinatra, Lee Remick, Ralph Meeker, Jack Klugman, Horace MacMahon, Lloyd Bochner and Jacqueline Bissset. A Pan...

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