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Detective Story
Tells the story of one day in the lives of the various people who populate a police detective squad. An embittered cop, Det. Jim McLeod, leads a precinct of characters in their grim daily battle with the city's lowlife. The characters who pass through the precinct over the course of the day include a young petty embezzler, a pair of burglars, and a naive shoplifter.
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“The love story of a man whose wife was more woman than angel!”
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- Oct 19, 1951
- 1h 43m
- English
- William Wyler
- Sidney Kingsley, Philip Yordan, Robert Wyler
- Released
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