Detective Story
<div><div><b>Book tickets for two or more of our </b><b><a href="https://www.filmhouse.org.uk/noirvember">Noirvember</a></b><b> films in the same transaction to receive a discount!</b></div><div><br></div><div>A day in the life of New York's 21st precinct police station. Kirk Douglas is hard-hitting, by-the-book detective Jim McLeod, whose world falls apart through his investigations of an abortionist.</div></div><div><br></div><div>William Wyler recieved one of his 12 nominations - the most for any director - for Best Director at the Academy Awards for <i>Detective Story</i>, along with Best Actress for Eleanor Parker and Best Supporting Actress for Lee Greant in her film debut. The film was also groundbreaking in that it changed the very rules that films could be made under, as prior to its release, the killing of police officers was strictly forbidden in film even if essential to the plot.</div><div><br></div><div><div><i>"</i><i>William Wyler was one of the most prolific directors of Golden Age Hollywood, working across many genres. Seen as a perfectionist and an ‘actor’s director’, he holds the record for the most Academy Award nominations across a director’s oeuvre for acting and here we see the goods with </i>The Letter<i>, a noir melodrama set in the formerly known British Malaya starring </i>the<i> Bette Davis who was nominated for her role - and </i>Detective Story<i> (starring Kirk Douglas and receiving acting nominations for the incredible Eleanor Parker and character actor, Lee Grant)."</i></div><div><i><br></i></div><div><i>- Written by Raymah Tariq, Programme Manager</i></div></div>CrimePT1H43M12A2026-11-08USenKirk Douglas
Eleanor Parker
William Bendix
William Wyler
Philip Yordan
Robert Wyler
William Wyler
Detective Story"Detective Story"Showtimes
November 8, 3:30 pm
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