Detective Story (1951 film)

Detective Story is a 1951 film noir which tells the story of one day in the lives of the various people who populate a police detective squad. It features Kirk Douglas, Eleanor Parker, William Bendix, Cathy ODonnell, and George Macready. Both Lee Grant and Joseph Wiseman perform in their film debuts. The movie was adapted by Robert Wyler and Philip Yordan from the 1949 play of the same name by Sidney Kingsley. Nominated for four Academy Awards, it was directed by William Wyler.

The story begins with the arrest of a shoplifter Lee Grant and her booking at the 21st police precinct in New York City. Outside, Det. Jim McLeod Kirk Douglas is sharing a romantic moment with his wife Mary Eleanor Parker, and they discuss the children they are planning to have. McLeod returns to the precinct to process a young embezzler named Arthur Kindred William Reynolds.McLeod then encounters Endicott Sims Warner Anderson, lawyer of Dutchman Karl Schneider George Macready, a New Jersey doctor who has had his license revoked and is now wanted on murder charges. Sims informs Lieutenant Monahan Horace McMahon that Schneider wants to turn himself in to avoid the wrath of McLeod, who has apparently been conducting an ongoing hate campaign against the doctor, who is known to perform abortions. McLeod professes his hatred of Schneider, and in fact all criminals, lamenting that the law merely coddles them. ........

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