Frank Sinatra gives a gritty performance in the crime thriller The Detective. When Teddy Leikman, the homosexual son of a politically connected department-store magnate, is murdered, detective Joe ...

The Detective was a 1968 adaptation of Roderick Thorp's book with the same title, but it wasn't until 1979 that Thorp penned Nothing Lasts Forever, the sequel that eventually became Die Hard ...