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Detective Story
Crime, Drama
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.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who value contained, psychologically charged police dramas where moral certainty gradually gives way to painful self-confrontation.
- Tone
- tense, bleak, melancholic
- Payoff
- catharsis, reflection
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- intense
- Structure
- real-time
- Themes
- justice, moral rigidity, hidden trauma, institutional power, empathy
- Setting
- mid-twentieth-century urban era, crowded police precinct
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