Accidently started reading the book when i was a kid in the early '70's (secretly finished it) didn't realize it was the 'Die Hard' prequel. I'll watch the movie now..thanks.
Interesting to think Die Hard was meant to have Frank Sinatra returning in this role but when he said no they reworked it and changed the names. Now I'm hearing Frank Sinatra saying "Yipe Kayai Mother Fucker"
The first time I saw this, I was a young adult and couldn't quite grasp the plot. This is a deep movie I realized when I finally saw it again. It's been years! Frank Sinatra was always more than a Singer to me. I loved his acting as well. I'm going to buy the video. =)
I was 15 in 1968 the movies for the most part had rules about language and how it was used. At first I couldn’t believe what I was seeing and hearing. This was considered by me the first real adult subject matter movie I’d ever seen. When they showed all the sweeties crammed in the trailer of that truck I was repelled. I didn’t know about things like that. Then when Felix was being interrogated by FS and Felix said, He was a bitch! That was the first time I heard a guy called a bitch. I liked the grittiness of the city and the scenes in the police station. I love those old New York police movies like The 7 Ups, the French Connection, Cogans Bluff with Clint Eastwood was a good one too.
@@timmitzlaff8960 Right. I had to see it again to realize the core of the movie was about the man's sexuality. I didn't even realize a man called himself the B word. This was a very different time and mindset.
The actor in the chair is a great piece of work. Tony Musante. He starred with Marty Sheen in an indelible film called The Incident. Find it. Unforgettable. More like theater than another movie. It hits moments you never see in other films. Hey, how about that ending music in this trailer? I bet a thou that it's not in the movie...
This movie has a sequel did ya know? Its called DIE HARD! .... seriously! Okay the abridged version is that the author made a sequel to the Detective called Nothing Lasts Forever. He apparently intended to make a movie of it but Sinatra wasn't available. After a short period in Development Hell it was retooled and re-imagined as a stand alone movie.... I ain't read it myself but according to wikipedia outside of some major alterations like renaming the main character it follows the source material quite nicely. Anyone read these books? Do you recommend? Have you seen this flick and should I give it a shot?
I know this is an old comment but yes, I do recommend the book called Nothing Lasts Forever. It's one of those "Airport Novels" of it's time, not very challenging but something good to pass the time. The book is much darker than DIE HARD. The protagonist, Leland, was having a mid life crisis and his thoughts often turned to the past and the mistakes he wish he could take back. Gruber, first name Tony, was actually a terrorist who was very much a sadist like his film counterpart. He was modeled after Patty Hearst, rich kid turned terrorist. There are some pretty grisly deaths done in cold blood, most of them by Leland's hand. There is a pretty shocking death at the end. Let's just say, it won't make you sing "Let it Snow".
This movie may be overshadowed today by TV shows like Homicide, the Law and Order spinoffs and God only knows how many more are out there, good and bad; but for the time, it was pretty groundbreaking. How many other movies from that era can match this? I wonder.
I liked your comment. This film was so cutting edge for the time. It explored homosexuality and its relation to crime. It also explored cops getting the wrong man. It explored pressure cops have to solve a case & obtain a confession. It explored how "solving the case" gets you promoted in the police ranks. It's realistic.
I know this is only the trailer, but Thank YOu so much for putting it up. I really like this movie and i liked Frank as Sgt Joe Leland. After watching this movie I made improvements to character I created in high school. I made him a drunk, a guy who was withdrawn from his family, divorced by the time he came back into their lives, his wife died. I like the changes because i felt that the original character didn't had the depth that was in Sinatra's character from this amazing noire-ish film.
"Tony Rome" (1967), "The Detective" (1968), "The Lady in Cement" (1968), "Contract on Cherry Street" (1977) and "The First Deadly Sin" (1980). He plays a police detective in all of these titles.
This is one movie I would like to see remade. It didn't live up to the expectations in 1968. I could see this with Tom Hardy, Cillian Murphy, Robert Downey Jr., Adam Driver, Daniel Day-Lewis, Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell, or Colin Farrell. With minimal imagination there can be changes to the time and/or place of the film that open up the casting of the main character's race and/or age. We could consider Idris Elba, Dev Patel, Ken Watanabe, Pedro Pascal, Lakeith Stanfield, David Oyelowo, and so on. There's little chance they would use enough imagination to consider changing the detective's gender, but I enjoy imagining the amazing possibilities that would result.
Not true. But the actor playing psychiatrist, Lloyd Bochner was Hart Bochner's father. Roderick Thorp has no relation to either of them as far as I know.
Pellicola davvero stupenda, la sceneggiatura è interessante che parla per una delle prime volte nel cinema di argomenti precedentemente vietati come l'omosessualità, funziona sul piano investigativo, molto bravo l' attore Musante seppur in una piccola parte, però c'è qualche lentezza nella parti che riguardano il matrimonio del protagonista, quindi davvero stupenda e davvero stupenda per me come valutazione è 8,5.
totally agree with that Frank Sinatra could not make a picture like Die Hard he's just not that good don't get me wrong I love frank butt come on the movies he made on his own were okay but the movies he did with Dean Martin and the Rat Pack was better and the movies he made with everyone else where better
this isn't part of the die hard franchise just because of some tenuous connection involving source novels, genius. i like die hard too, but if action movies are the only thing that can turn your crank, stick to 'em.
Accidently started reading the book when i was a kid in the early '70's (secretly finished it) didn't realize it was the 'Die Hard' prequel. I'll watch the movie now..thanks.
Interesting to think Die Hard was meant to have Frank Sinatra returning in this role but when he said no they reworked it and changed the names. Now I'm hearing Frank Sinatra saying "Yipe Kayai Mother Fucker"
The first time I saw this, I was a young adult and couldn't quite grasp the plot. This is a deep movie I realized when I finally saw it again. It's been years! Frank Sinatra was always more than a Singer to me. I loved his acting as well. I'm going to buy the video. =)
Me too!!!! LOVE Frank in film!!
I was 15 in 1968 the movies for the most part had rules about language and how it was used. At first I couldn’t believe what I was seeing and hearing. This was considered by me the first real adult subject matter movie I’d ever seen. When they showed all the sweeties crammed in the trailer of that truck I was repelled. I didn’t know about things like that. Then when Felix was being interrogated by FS and Felix said, He was a bitch! That was the first time I heard a guy called a bitch. I liked the grittiness of the city and the scenes in the police station. I love those old New York police movies like The 7 Ups, the French Connection, Cogans Bluff with Clint Eastwood was a good one too.
@@timmitzlaff8960 Right. I had to see it again to realize the core of the movie was about the man's sexuality. I didn't even realize a man called himself the B word. This was a very different time and mindset.
Before there was the beat cop turned hero John McClane, there was the battle hardened detective, Joseph Leland...
Frank Sinatra is brilliant in this movie. One of my all time classic murder mystery thrillers. They touch on everything in this film.
I like all three of the Tony Rome movies
The actor in the chair is a great piece of work. Tony Musante. He starred with Marty Sheen in an indelible film called The Incident. Find it. Unforgettable. More like theater than another movie. It hits moments you never see in other films. Hey, how about that ending music in this trailer? I bet a thou that it's not in the movie...
It Was Jerry Goldsmith at his peak
Sinatra excellent & totally believable in the title role shows a man with strengths & flaws trying to do the job real like it is.
This movie has a sequel did ya know? Its called DIE HARD!
.... seriously!
Okay the abridged version is that the author made a sequel to the Detective called Nothing Lasts Forever. He apparently intended to make a movie of it but Sinatra wasn't available. After a short period in Development Hell it was retooled and re-imagined as a stand alone movie.... I ain't read it myself but according to wikipedia outside of some major alterations like renaming the main character it follows the source material quite nicely. Anyone read these books? Do you recommend? Have you seen this flick and should I give it a shot?
Ok
I know this is an old comment but yes, I do recommend the book called Nothing Lasts Forever. It's one of those "Airport Novels" of it's time, not very challenging but something good to pass the time. The book is much darker than DIE HARD. The protagonist, Leland, was having a mid life crisis and his thoughts often turned to the past and the mistakes he wish he could take back. Gruber, first name Tony, was actually a terrorist who was very much a sadist like his film counterpart. He was modeled after Patty Hearst, rich kid turned terrorist. There are some pretty grisly deaths done in cold blood, most of them by Leland's hand. There is a pretty shocking death at the end. Let's just say, it won't make you sing "Let it Snow".
'Nothing Lasts Forever' is a fantastic read.
@@ricardocantoral7672 that's a good review. Texting this one week before Christmas.
I want to be a detective, this is underrated really.
he was made for that role great actor pity he never made it a tv series as well
I like to think that die hard is the actual sequel instead of spiritual
The "Die Hard" prequel.
Yep, for those of ya who don't know, THIS is technically Die Hard Zer0.
Kinley McKinley Die Hard: My Way
soapmeridius Diehard is a much better movie than this one
+soapmeridius that's cute. ;0)
Die Hard Begins sounds gay.. but I like it 😅
@@dinn96 how Die got Hard
This movie may be overshadowed today by TV shows like Homicide, the Law and Order spinoffs and God only knows how many more are out there, good and bad; but for the time, it was pretty groundbreaking. How many other movies from that era can match this? I wonder.
Actually it feels like a neo-noir.
I liked your comment. This film was so cutting edge for the time. It explored homosexuality and its relation to crime. It also explored cops getting the wrong man. It explored pressure cops have to solve a case & obtain a confession. It explored how "solving the case" gets you promoted in the police ranks. It's realistic.
perfect comment
Did you spot Joe Santos when you watched it??
I know this is only the trailer, but Thank YOu so much for putting it up. I really like this movie and i liked Frank as Sgt Joe Leland. After watching this movie I made improvements to character I created in high school. I made him a drunk, a guy who was withdrawn from his family, divorced by the time he came back into their lives, his wife died. I like the changes because i felt that the original character didn't had the depth that was in Sinatra's character from this amazing noire-ish film.
Dave and Chuck the Freak brought me here. RIPCORD!
"Tony Rome" (1967), "The Detective" (1968), "The Lady in Cement" (1968), "Contract on Cherry Street" (1977) and "The First Deadly Sin" (1980). He plays a police detective in all of these titles.
That is Correct
Close. Tony Rome was a private eye. Not sure if he was with the police
All GREAT films!!! Frank was underrated on the big screen & a multi~faceted talent. MISS him much!
Sinatra served Mia the Divorce Papers while Filming
This is one movie I would like to see remade. It didn't live up to the expectations in 1968. I could see this with Tom Hardy, Cillian Murphy, Robert Downey Jr., Adam Driver, Daniel Day-Lewis, Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell, or Colin Farrell. With minimal imagination there can be changes to the time and/or place of the film that open up the casting of the main character's race and/or age. We could consider Idris Elba, Dev Patel, Ken Watanabe, Pedro Pascal, Lakeith Stanfield, David Oyelowo, and so on. There's little chance they would use enough imagination to consider changing the detective's gender, but I enjoy imagining the amazing possibilities that would result.
Love it!
I just learned that the son of the author of the book played Ellis in Die Hard.
Not true. But the actor playing psychiatrist, Lloyd Bochner was Hart Bochner's father. Roderick Thorp has no relation to either of them as far as I know.
1:13 The greatest boxer of all time.
Blink and you'll miss it.
Best Sinatra performance by a street
i would love to see this as blueray or dvd
Where can I watch this film? Is it on the public domain yet?
This was the last film appearance of the late "Naked City" actor Horace McMahon 3 years before his death in August of 1971, at the age of 64.
Jacqueline Bisset's first Hollywood film.
Later that year she was in "Bullitt".
0:53 It's Robert Duvall
@Willie Gordon Yes, it is Duvall. He's in the movie.
1:36 Well, that´s a good way to go to bed hahah
Good movie
If they ever remake this Bruce Willis should be in it, hell they can even adapt this book and jst call him John McClane again
Yippi Kay A o Blue Eyes.
Damn imagine how cool was it that time it looks cool now but heck this must be golden back then given the technology that time
I would love to see this
Pellicola davvero stupenda, la sceneggiatura è interessante che parla per una delle prime volte nel cinema di argomenti precedentemente vietati come l'omosessualità, funziona sul piano investigativo, molto bravo l' attore Musante seppur in una piccola parte, però c'è qualche lentezza nella parti che riguardano il matrimonio del protagonista, quindi davvero stupenda e davvero stupenda per me come valutazione è 8,5.
Someone please upload.
Is this available on DVD/Blu-Ray?
This is so much better than Lady In Cement.
I like Lady In Cement better
Just wanted to see a clip of sugar ray:(
Who's here after the movies that made us ?
for someone who is 53 years old, he doesn't look a day over 72
folk looked older back then.
@@uncletony6210 folks also smoked and drank a lot.
Lee Remick is SO hot in this film....Lee Remick as a Nymphomaniac wife...oh yeah!!!!
Lee Remick was a smoker, died of kidney cancer at age 55----R.I.P.
how do we fix this world, men.
no.. i don't think we will.
but will we even understand it?
Useless, but fun trivia. Joe Santos of Rockford fame appeared in the movie for about 20/30 seconds, and had non speaking role. 🤔🤔
The Detective trailer..Great Narrator. William Conrad .Hard boiled LBJ Great society enabled dysfunctional angst.....
The first Die hard movie from 1988 with Bruce Willis is way way better and alot Superior to this piece of crap movie by frank sinatra.
totally agree with that Frank Sinatra could not make a picture like Die Hard he's just not that good don't get me wrong I love frank butt come on the movies he made on his own were okay but the movies he did with Dean Martin and the Rat Pack was better and the movies he made with everyone else where better
Burt Lancaster would have been better if they adapted the book the same year it was written.
this isn't part of the die hard franchise just because of some tenuous connection involving source novels, genius. i like die hard too, but if action movies are the only thing that can turn your crank, stick to 'em.
I like to think that die hard is the actual sequel instead of spiritual
The first Die hard movie from 1988 with Bruce Willis is way way better and alot Superior to this piece of crap movie by frank sinatra.
The movie isn't by Frank Sinatra, it's starring Frank Sinatra, there's a difference. Also, I doubt you've even seen this film, grow up.
LOL.