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Post by manfromplanetx on Jun 19, 2021 0:29:01 GMT
The Book, the Author, the Private Detective, the Classic Film... A compilation of Private Detective fiction, classic film adaptations from around the world... Meet Mr. Callaghan (1954) UK Dir. by Charles Saunders. A great favourite of mine... Derrick De Marney gives a fabulous tongue-in-cheek performance as Private Detective Slim Callaghan in this highly entertaining crime drama based on the 1938 novel The Urgent Hangman by Peter Cheyney.  Derrick De Marney as Slim Callaghan with Adrienne Corri as Mayola
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Post by manfromplanetx on Jun 19, 2021 2:13:12 GMT
Michael Rennie also played Private Detective Slim Callaghan in an earlier film, Uneasy Terms (1948) UK directed by Vernon Sewell. Based on the 1946 novel of the same name by author Peter Cheyney. Private eye Slim Callaghan is summoned to the country home of Colonel Stenhurst, but the latter is murdered before he can talk. Was one of the Colonel’s three daughters responsible?... While not having the flair and expression of De Marney and his well versed Slim, (having played the character in a popular theatrical play), the film is nevertheless an entertaining Private Detective crime drama.   
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Post by manfromplanetx on Jun 19, 2021 2:34:00 GMT
Private Detective Nick Carter is a fictional character who began his career as a dime novel private detective in 1886. The master detective has appeared in a variety of formats over more than a century, he was first conceived by Ormond G. Smith and created by John R. Coryell. Adéla ještě nevečeřela , Dinner for Adele (1977) Czechoslovakian comedy directed by Oldřich Lipský. An incredibly entertaining parody inspired by Nick Carter's pulp magazine adventures. "America's most famous detective" is summoned to Prague at the beginning of the 20th century to help solve the case of a mystery disappearance... Inspired by Nick Carters adventures from the dime novel pulp fiction of Ormond G. Smith and John R. Coryell
 Michal Dočolomanský as Nick Carter.  
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Post by mikef6 on Jun 19, 2021 2:49:25 GMT
Private Detective Nick Carter is a fictional character who began his career as a dime novel private detective in 1886. The master detective has appeared in a variety of formats over more than a century, he was first conceived by Ormond G. Smith and created by John R. Coryell.
When MGM tried for a low budget mystery series of its own, it revived the Nick Carter name, cast Walter Pigeon, and turned Carter into a Saint/Falcon rip-off – a happy-go-lucky ladies’ man who is a great detective but always reluctant to go to work. The first two of what turned out to be only a three picture deal were directed by Jacques Tourneur, only the second and third feature films he had helmed. Nick Carter #2: Phantom Raiders (1940) only runs 70 minutes. It is not a very good movie. There is little mystery and almost no suspense. Two things about the film can be recommended: the smooth but ruthless villain played by Joseph Schildkraut and a wonderful comedy performance by Stuffi Duna. For Dwight Frye completest, he appears in one short scene as an incompetent tough guy (shades of Wilmer Cook) who tries to Get Carter. Nick Carter #3: Sky Murder (1941). Tom Conway has a brief role. The next year Conway would go to RKO and take over The Saint series there but calling himself The Falcon. Meanwhile, back at “Sky Murder,” Nick is asked by a U.S. Senator (back in the day when they were respected) to investigate a Nazi propaganda cell and uncover the identity of the cell’s leader. To do so, he must solve a locked room murder that takes place on a small private aircraft. This is pretty negligible stuff which, I think, was even obvious when first released. However, it is entertaining, fast moving, and short (72 minutes).
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Post by manfromplanetx on Jun 19, 2021 7:27:51 GMT
Kosuke Kindaichi is a fictional Japanese Private Detective created by renowned Japanese detective/mystery novelist Seishi Yokomizo. Published in 1946 his first case, The Honjin Murders, is a locked room murder mystery, regarded as one of the best Japanese detective novels. The no-nonsense Private Eye went on to feature in another 76 novels, selling more than 55 million books and appearing in numerous film, television and stage adaptations. Veteran actor Chiezō Kataoka was the first to play Kosuke Kindaichi it was in an adaptation of The Honjin Murders, Sanbon yubi no otoko (1947) Dir. Sadatsugu Matsuda, writer Yoshitake Hisa adapted from Yokomizo for the screen. The film was remade in 1976, Death at an Old Mansion. Yoshitake Hisa is also credited with the creation of another popular Japanese fictional Private Eye Bannai Tarao. An eccentric character, a master of disguise, he was also played by Chiezō Kataoka who portrayed him in eleven classic movies from 1946 until 1960, Director Kon Ichikawa made five films starring Koji Ishizaka as Private Eye Kosuke Kindaichi. The first of these is the excellent crime thriller The Inugami Family (1976). Detective Kosuke Kindaichi is called in to investigate a series of murders taking place within the upper class Inugami family…  On the job Kōji Ishizaka as Kosuke Kindaichi  
The Seven Faces of Bannai Tarao (1956) an excellent entertaining Private Detective crime film a great performance from Chiezô Kataoka
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Post by OldAussie on Jun 19, 2021 8:37:46 GMT
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Post by OldAussie on Jun 19, 2021 8:41:06 GMT
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Post by OldAussie on Jun 19, 2021 8:43:32 GMT
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Post by OldAussie on Jun 19, 2021 8:45:59 GMT
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Post by politicidal on Jun 19, 2021 14:44:36 GMT
Mike Hammer (Ralph Meeker) from 1955's Kiss Me Deadly.
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Jun 19, 2021 18:13:34 GMT
Always liked George Sanders in The Falcon movies. Tom Conway, not so much.
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Post by timshelboy on Jun 19, 2021 19:22:52 GMT
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Post by manfromplanetx on Jun 19, 2021 21:49:00 GMT
Sherlock Holmes is a fictional Private Detective created by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Referring to himself as a "consulting detective" when investigating cases, including the too difficult for Scotland Yard. Holmes is known for his acute proficiency with observation, deduction, forensic science, and logical reasoning. The stories of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle are translated into over 60 languages and are immensely popular for adaptation. The numerous film and television productions are noted by the Guinness World Records which has listed Holmes as the most portrayed literary human character in film and television history, with more than 75 actors playing the part in over 250 productions... "A Scandal in Bohemia" 1891 was the first published Arthur Conan Doyle, Holmes short story, it was loosely adapted as Dressed to Kill (1946) starring Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson, their 14th and final film of the popular American series.
Between 1979 and 1986, Soviet television produced a series of five television films, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. The series were split into eleven episodes and starred Vasily Livanov as Holmes and Vitaly Solomin as Watson. Livanov earned an honorary membership Order of the British Empire for his performance as Holmes, ambassador Anthony Brenton described as "one of the best I've ever seen...
A superior production it is my favourite interpretation, giving great depth to both characters Watson and Holmes. The first film was an adaptation of "The Adventure of the Speckled Band" the eighth Arthur Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes short story...
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Post by london777 on Jun 19, 2021 22:29:16 GMT
During a Q & A about My Blueberry Nights (2007), writer/director Kai-War Wong explained that he called in Lawrence Block to co-write the screenplay because, English not being Wong's first language, he wanted to ensure the script was idiomatic. Block has written over forty books, some of them featuring his private eye character Matt Scudder, a functioning alcoholic. I have seen filmed versions of two of them: 8 Million Ways to Die (1986) in which Jeff Bridges plays Scudder. Despite the contributions of Hal Ashby (director) and Oliver Stone (screenplay) and a cast also including Andy Garcia and Rosanna Arquette it left me cold.  A Walk Among the Tombstones (2014) in which Liam Neeson plays Scudder. Written and directed by Scott Frank, this also failed to enthuse me.  Perhaps Block could persuade Kai-War Wong to have go at a Matthew Scudder novel? |
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Post by manfromplanetx on Jun 19, 2021 23:41:54 GMT
Sam Spade fictional Private Detective character and the famous protagonist of Dashiell Hammett's 1930 novel, The Maltese Falcon (1931, 1941) The Sam Spade character is widely cited as the founding figure in the development of the hard-boiled private detective fiction... Spade was first played by Ricardo Cortez in the first film version in 1931 and significantly in classic film history Humphrey Bogart also played Spade, the quintessential hard boiled private detective... Dashiell Hammett said of his character... "Spade has no original. He is a dream man in the sense that he is what most of the private detectives I worked with would like to have been and in their cockier moments thought they approached. For your private detective does not—or did not ten years ago when he was my colleague—want to be an erudite solver of riddles in the Sherlock Holmes manner; he wants to be a hard and shifty fellow, able to take care of himself in any situation, able to get the best of anybody he comes in contact with, whether criminal, innocent by-stander or client"
 
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Post by london777 on Jun 20, 2021 1:34:20 GMT
I do not remember any blazing automatics?
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Post by manfromplanetx on Jun 20, 2021 1:51:25 GMT
I do not remember any blazing automatics? The poster looks to have used a stock image of Bogart sporting a prison cut from his previous big hit High Sierra, those blazing automatics seemed a bit out of place to me also, must be due for a re-watch ...
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Post by manfromplanetx on Jun 20, 2021 22:47:51 GMT
Michael Shayne is a fictional private detective character created by mystery/western writer Brett Halliday, a pseudonym of Davis Dresser. "Mike" Shayne first appeared in the novel Dividend on Death first published in 1939, written by Dresser as Halliday. Adapting to the big screen, the film Michael Shayne, Private Detective (1940) is the first in a series of twelve very entertaining, some light, crime drama films. Lloyd Nolan starred as Shayne in seven films, the series was dropped by Twentieth Century Fox and picked up by the Poverty Row studio PRC, where Hugh Beaumont became Private Eye Michael Shayne for a five film stint...  Lloyd Nolan as Michael Shayne
  
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Post by mattgarth on Jun 20, 2021 23:56:05 GMT
Lloyd Nolan as 'Michael Shayne' in 1942's TIME TO KILL was based on Raymond Chandler's "The High Window" -- which was remade in 1947 as THE BRASHER DOUBLOON with a mustached George Montgomery as 'Philip Marlowe' (and he sure was no Bogie or Dick Powell or that other Montgomery in the role).
And as for author Chandler, RKO got ahold of "Farewell My Lovely" and converted it to fit George Sanders in THE FALCON TAKES OVER. A muscular Ward Bond filled the shoes of 'Moose Malloy' two years before Mike Mazurki joined up with Powell in the more classic MURDER MY SWEET.
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Post by manfromplanetx on Jun 21, 2021 4:48:50 GMT
Philo Vance is an amateur detective who originally featured in the mystery crime novels of S. S. Van Dine a pseudonym of Willard Huntington Wright. Stories of the debonair fictional detective Philo Vance were immensely popular, in print on the big screen and on the radio.. The Benson Murder Case (1930) Dir. Frank Tuttle. This entertaining film stars urbane William Powell a natural in this the his third appearance as Philo Vance. The film is adapted from the first of the Vance mystery novels by S. S. Van Dine, interesting to note that the book itself was inspired by a real life case from 1920. Basil Rathbone, William Powell, Warren William, Paul Lukas, Edmund Lowe and James Stephenson have all played Philo Vance, their films from 1929-1940 feature in an excellent collection from the WB archives....   
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