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Overview
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Writers:
Abby Mann (screenplay)
Roderick Thorp (novel)
Release Date:
28 May 1968 (USA) more
Plot:
Police detective Joe Leland investigates the murder of a homosexual man. While investigating, he discovers... more | add synopsis
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(3 articles)
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old fashioned cop movie with decency more (31 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Frank Sinatra | ... | Det. Sgt. Joe Leland |
 | Lee Remick | ... | Karen Wagner Leland |
| Ralph Meeker | ... | Curran |
 | Jack Klugman | ... | Dave Schoenstein |
| Horace McMahon | ... | Capt. Tom Farrell |
| Lloyd Bochner | ... | Dr. Wendell Roberts |
| William Windom | ... | Colin MacIver |
 | Tony Musante | ... | Felix Tesla |
| Al Freeman Jr. | ... | Robbie Loughlin |
 | Robert Duvall | ... | Nestor |
| Pat Henry | ... | Mercidis |
| Patrick McVey | ... | Police Officer Mike Tanner |
| Dixie Marquis | ... | Carol Linjack |
| Sugar Ray Robinson | ... | Kelly |
| Renée Taylor | ... | Rachael Schoenstein |
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114 min
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2.35 : 1 more
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Mono (Westrex Recording System)
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Singapore:NC-16 (DVD rating) | Singapore:PG | West Germany:18 (f) | Finland:K-16 | Norway:16 | Spain:18 | Sweden:15 | UK:15 | USA:Approved
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'Frank Sinatra (I)' was supposed to costar with his wife, Mia Farrow in this film but a film Farrow was working on was running behind schedule, so she refused. Sinatra got so mad, he made the film without her (casting Jacqueline Bisset in the role instead) and served her divorce papers on the set of that film, Rosemary's Baby (1968). more
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Factual errors: NYPD detectives investigating a murder scene always have their shield displayed, but none of the detectives are wearing one. more
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Referenced in The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast: Frank Sinatra (1977) (TV) more
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An old fashioned, sometimes silly, but altogether decent and moral little film. The isolated accusation of homophobia present elsewhere in the list of reviews is not accurate. This assumption might be made from watching only the first few minutes of the film, when certain suspicions arise, but as the film develops those suspicions turn out to be quite ungrounded and in fact the Sinatra character openly defends gay characters from a homophobic cop, and so on.
Throughout this movie the hero has actual moral integrity and refuses to abandon it, most of the time, and if he does it is not glorified. This in itself makes it worth watching just the once, given the general state of other films in the genre.