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- Chinatown (1974) Directed by Roman Polanski. Chinatown. R. Release Date. June 20, 1974. Director. Roman Polanski. Cast. Jack Nicholson , Faye Dunaway , John Huston , Perry Lopez , John Hillerman , Darrell Zwerling.
- The Maltese Falcon (1941) Directed by John Huston. The Maltese Falcon epitomizes the private eye genre and set the template for all who followed. Humphrey Bogart plays modern detective Sam Spade, tracking down the elusive title statue while outwitting manipulators and liars.
- Knives Out (2019) Directed by Rian Johnson. Knives Out. PG-13. Release Date. November 27, 2019. Director. Rian Johnson. Cast. Chris Evans , LaKeith Stanfield , Katherine Langford , Daniel Craig , Toni Collette , Jamie Lee Curtis , Ana De Armas , Michael Shannon , Christopher Plummer , Don Johnson , Riki Lindhome.
- The Long Goodbye (1973) Directed by Robert Altman. The Long Goodbye features Elliott Gould as an atypical, anachronistic take on Raymond Chandler’s private eye, Philip Marlowe.
7.9 (167K) Rate. 97 Metascore. San Francisco private detective Sam Spade takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a gorgeous liar and their quest for a priceless statuette, with the stakes rising after his partner is murdered.
Private Detective is a 1939 American drama film directed by Noel M. Smith and written by Earle Snell and Raymond L. Schrock. The film stars Jane Wyman and Dick Foran and is based on the short story "Invitation to Murder" by Kay Krausse in the Pocket Detective Magazine.
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- Murder on the Orient Express (1974) Sidney Lumet’s 1974 adaptation of Agatha Christie’s classic mystery starred Albert Finney as Hercule Poirot, with a supporting cast that included Lauren Bacall, Sean Connery, John Gielgud, Ingrid Bergman, and Anthony Perkins, just to name a few.
- Shaft (1971) Richard Roundtree stars as private detective John Shaft in this classic of the Blaxploitation genre, an adaptation of the novel by Ernest Tidyman.
- Kiss Me Deadly (1955) Mickey Spillane’s popular private detective Mike Hammer (played here by Ralph Meeker) usually deals with petty divorce cases, but all that changes when he picks up a hitchhiker named Christina who’s just escaped from a mental institution.
- The Maltese Falcon (1941) Another stellar Dashiell Hammett adaptation (see The Thin Man, above) was directed by John Huston in 1941, this one starring Humphrey Bogart as the seminal private detective Sam Spade.
- The Maltese Falcon (1941) Director: John Huston. Warner Bros. He’s nobody’s fool, obviously, but there’s also an edge to Humphrey Bogart’s private eye Sam Spade – a calculating, unsentimental, morally questionable observer of the iniquities around him – which brings live-wire tension to this much-loved artefact of golden age Hollywood.
- Murder, My Sweet (1944) Director: Edward Dmytryk. It’s still a mystery why they changed the title from the original Farewell, My Lovely, but this first film adaptation of a Chandler novel retains the trademark wry first-person narration, and gets almost everything else right, winning the author’s admiration in the process.
- Kiss Me Deadly (1955) Director: Robert Aldrich. In the three years between The Maltese Falcon and Murder, My Sweet, we were edging towards the modern world.
- Vertigo (1958) Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Strictly speaking, James Stewart isn’t a private eye here but a cop who’s left the service after his vertigo was to blame for the accidental death of a fellow officer, and takes on a surveillance gig for an old friend.
Feb 10, 2021 · Here are 10 essential P.I. films…. The Long Goodbye. Robert Altman’s adaptation of the Raymond Chandler novel was updated for the 1970’s and transformed from noir to neo-noir.
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A private detective hired to expose an adulterer in 1930s Los Angeles finds himself caught up in a web of deceit, corruption, and murder. Director Roman Polanski Stars Jack Nicholson Faye Dunaway John Huston
