Joe Leland embodies a commendable officer navigating a shadowy world. Gordon Douglas directed this film, which Abby Mann adapted from Roderick Thorp’s novel. The cast includes Frank Sinatra, Lee Remick, Ralph Meeker, Jack Klugman, Horace MacMahon, Lloyd Bochner and Jacqueline Bissset. It's a Panavision/Deluxe Color production with cinematography by Joseph Biroc and a score by Jerry Goldsmith. Following the disc…

Reaching a milestone—around 5,000 movies seen, give or take—prompted me to think about Frank Sinatra. I’d been watching some of his films lately and decided to explore the detective movies he made in the sixties, a time when his popularity as both an actor and singer began to decline with shifting cultural trends. I hadn't previously viewed many Douglas films, though he handles the story competently enough, in a w…