{"id":40451,"date":"2025-11-07T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=40451"},"modified":"2025-11-03T18:23:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T23:23:16","slug":"detective-story-1951-directed-by-william-wyler-starring-kirk-douglas-eleanor-parker-william-bendix-and-introducing-lee-grant-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=40451","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Detective Story&#8221; (1951) directed by William Wyler; starring Kirk Douglas, Eleanor Parker, William Bendix and introducing Lee Grant \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z110725zview_detectivestory.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Detective Story <\/strong><\/em>(1951)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director:\u00a0 <strong>William Wyler<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Robert Wyler, Philip Yordan\u00a0<\/strong>based on <em>Detective Story <\/em>(1949 play) by\u00a0<strong>Sidney Kingsley<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Kirk Douglas, Eleanor Parker, William Bendix, Cathy O&#8217;Donnell, George Macready, Horace McMahon, Gladys George, Lee Grant, Gerald Mohr, Frank Faylen, Michael Strong, Luis Van Rooten, Bert Freed, Warner Anderson, Grandon Rhodes\u00a0 <\/strong>and <strong>Joseph Wiseman.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>The love story of a man whose wife was more woman than angel!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plot\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">New York City Detective Jim McLeod has no tolerance for law-breakers.\u00a0 McLeod&#8217;s dad was one and it literally drove McLeod&#8217;s mother insane.\u00a0 McLeod&#8217;s tough on everyone.\u00a0 Everyone except his beautiful wife, Mary.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">One night, as other cops work their cases in the station house, McLeod has a breakthrough.\u00a0 The other officers are dealing with shoplifters, burglars and even a potential psycho-rapist.\u00a0 McLeod has been working a case involving Dr. Karl Schneider.\u00a0 Schneider is a black market doctor who is responsible for at least one death.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dr. Schneider&#8217;s lawyer warns McLeod to back off or else.\u00a0 McLeod refuses.\u00a0 He doesn&#8217;t know what the lawyer&#8217;s threats hold.\u00a0 But he&#8217;s going to find out.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Detective Story<\/em> was nominated for four 1952 <em>Academy Awards<\/em>&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nominee for <em>Best Writing, Screenplay<\/em> &#8211; <strong>Philip Yordan, Robert Wyler<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Nominee for <em>Best Director<\/em> &#8211; <strong>William Wyler<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Nominee for <em>Best Actress in a Supporting Role<\/em> &#8211; <strong>Lee Grant<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Nominee for <em>Best Actress in a Leading Role<\/em> &#8211; <strong>Eleanor Parker<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the original play, Dr. Schneider&#8217;s crimes were explicitly stated.\u00a0 Due to Film Production Codes, in <em>Detective Story<\/em> they code only be hinted at.\u00a0 Audiences could read between the lines.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Detective Story<\/em> features Lee Grant&#8217;s film debut and she was nominated for an <em>Academy Award<\/em> for her performance!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Detective Story<\/em> is one of the best play adaptations I&#8217;ve ever seen.\u00a0 Lee Grant is superb. William Bendix is always awesome.\u00a0 Kirk Douglas was the perfect choice to play the hard-nosed Detective McLeod.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><em>Detective Story<\/em><\/strong> (1951) rates 5 of 5 stars.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_a.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z110725zview_detectivestory2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"355\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Detective Story (1951) Director:\u00a0 William Wyler Screenplay: Robert Wyler, Philip Yordan\u00a0based on Detective Story (1949 play) by\u00a0Sidney Kingsley Stars: Kirk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,51,54,65,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-crime","category-movies","category-trivia","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40451"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40452,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40451\/revisions\/40452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}