The Detective

It appears that an investigation is being thwarted by a police department when a homosexual man is found brutally maimed and murdered in his apartment., A detective is asked by a woman to solve the mystery of her husband’s death. He discovers that the dead man was, in fact, a murderer in a previous case of his in which the wrong man was convicted and executed., Sleazy crime thriller about the web of corruption that comes to light following the arrest and execution of a man for the mutilation and murder of a homosexual. The detective in charge eventually realises not only that the executed man was innocent, but that the police department is implicated in the case. Then a suspicious suicide opens up the investigation., Frank Sinatra plays a hard-bitten New York cop whose investigation into the brutal murder of a homosexual leads him into a morass of high-level corruption and chicanery., Frank Sinatra gives a gritty performance in the crime thriller The Detective. When Teddy Leikman, the homosexual son of a politically connected department-store magnate, is murdered, detective Joe Leland (Frank Sinatra) is sent in to investigate. Leland drags in Teddy’s psychotic former roommate Felix Tesla (Tony Musante) and forces a confession out of him; for his work on the case Leland gets a promotion, which troubles him. Afterwards, Norma MacIver (Jacqueline Bisset), the widow of a well-heeled accountant, comes to see Leland. Her husband was killed after falling off the grandstand at a racetrack — but Norma thinks he was pushed. She asks Leland to investigate her husband’s death. Reopening the case, Leland discovers that the police are opposed to him scratching around any further, and after an attempt on his life, he uncovers some startling evidence that may connect the two deaths.