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Jun 01, 2011Janice21383 rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Like Oedipus Rex, if Oedipus was a cop at Barney Miller's precinct. One of the characters has had an abortion. Let me repeat, an A-B-O-R-T-I-O-N. Sorry, but that feels good, after the hinting around this movie does. The most anyone says is "the child was born dead." Which is the point of an abortion, no? Yet Detective Story was advanced for its day, and is more frank than many modern films. Kirk Douglas portrays a teeth-gnashingly, gut-twistingly sad bigot, the role he was born for, obviously. To my knowledge, he is the first American male star of the sound era to cry openly, on screen.