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Detective Story (1951): Scores Across IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB

Detective Story is a 1951 crime, drama film directed by William Wyler. It scores 7.5 on IMDb, 71% on Rotten Tomatoes, 78 on Metacritic, 7.1 on TMDB. Audiences and critics largely agree: IMDb users and Metacritic critics are within 3 points of each other once scaled to 100. Ranked by confidence-weighted IMDb score, it is number 14 of 65 films from 1951 in our catalog and number 204 of 1,305 crime films.

Billed cast: Kirk Douglas, Eleanor Parker, William Bendix, Cathy O'Donnell, George Macready, Horace McMahon.

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