Detective Story (1951) - (Movie Clip) Personal Motives

Detective Story -- (Original Trailer)

A rigid police detective (Kirk Douglas) accidentally uncovers his wife's shady past life in William Wyler's Detective Story (1951).

Detective Story (1951) -- (Movie Clip) Baby Farm Grist Mill

Hard-headed New York detective McLeod (Kirk Douglas) just leaving when accused baby-selling doctor Schneider (George MacReady) arrives, with lawyer Sims (Warner Anderson) in tow, Lieutenant Monahan (Horace McMahon), making sure the case is solid, in William Wyler's Detective Story, 1951.

Detective Story (1951) -- (Movie Clip) Missing Husband Report

First scene for leading man and lady, Kirk Douglas and Eleanor Parker, as Det. McLeod and wife Mary, who intercepts him on the way to book embezzler Arthur (Craig Hill), early in William Wyler's Detective Story, 1951, from the play by Sidney Kingsley.

Detective Story (1951) -- (Movie Clip) Just Supply The Finger

Bert Freed as workaday detective Dakis and Lee Grant the shoplifter, in her Academy Award-nominated performance in the role she also played on Broadway, opening William Wyler's film from the Sidney Kingsley play, Detective Story, 1951, starring Kirk Douglas and Eleanor Parker.