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...much red," intones former Detective Frank Pembleton (Andre Braugher), returning to his old Baltimore squadroom and spying the whiteboard. Red ink means open cases; black, solved. That is, red means lack of closure, as when NBC iced this humanistic cop drama unceremoniously last spring. Pembleton, Detective Tim Bayliss (Kyle Secor) and most of the series' diasporic crew investigate the shooting of Lieut. Al Giardello (Yaphet Kotto), now a mayoral candidate. The case is mostly pro forma, but its powerful yet tender epilogue writes Homicide's epitaph in emotionally satisfying black...
...cold wooden shacks that have been condemned years ago. The plumbing is rusted and faulty, and the heating is almost nonexistent. The so-called poorer countries of France, Italy and Germany furnished their troops with comfortable brick barracks that had rooms for single occupancy to a maximum of a squadroom for six to eight soldiers...
...rest of Detective Story's large cast, featuring William Bendix in a straight role as McLeod's older detective-partner, rounds out a lively gallery of Manhattan squadroom characters. For the first time since Champion, Kirk Douglas gets his teeth into a part tough enough to absorb all his biting intensity. Even more impressive, because it is less expected, is the remarkably well-shaded performance that Director Wyler draws out of Actress Parker in the difficult role of the detective's wife...
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