The Detective

Interrupting police procedure, Frank Sinatra as title character Leland, joins Lee Remick as Karen, whom we deduce is his wife, hosting a party, where she points out Lloyd Bochner, then we jump back to the couple’s first meeting, Gordon Douglas directing, early in The Detective, 1968.

Delivered in the opening to a tony Manhattan apartment, Frank Sinatra is the title character, gritty content and some complex shots by director Gordon Douglas, with Al Freeman Jr. (as Loughren), Jack Klugman (Schoenstein) and Robert Duvall (Nestor) introduced, in The Detective, 1968.

Frank Sinatra as title character Leland and his partner (Al Freeman Jr.) at a New York area beach community find Tesla (Tony Musante), a suspect in the much-publicized murder of a prominent gay man, his boss (Horace MacMahon) applying pressure back at the precinct, in The Detective, 1968.