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The Laughing Policeman is a american film of genre Drama directed by Stuart Rosenberg released in USA on 20 december 1973 with Walter Matthau
The Laughing Policeman (1973)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 20 december 1973
Length 1h52
Directed by Stuart Rosenberg
OriginUSA
Themes Children's films
Rating63%
The Laughing Policeman (1973) is an American police procedural film loosely based on the novel The Laughing Policeman by Sjöwall and Wahlöö. The setting of the story is transplanted from Stockholm to San Francisco. It was directed by Stuart Rosenberg and features Walter Matthau as Detective Jake Martin (the literary Martin Beck).
Synopsis
A busload of passengers, including off-duty police detective Dave Evans, is gunned down and killed. Evans, on his own time, has been following a man named Gus Niles in search of information linking businessman Henry Camarero to the murder of his wife, Teresa, two years earlier.Actors
Walter Matthau
(Sgt. Jake Martin SFPD)
Bruce Dern
(Insp. Leo Larsen SFPD)
Louis Gossett Jr.
(Insp. James Larrimore SFPD)
Anthony Zerbe
(Lt. Nat Steiner SFPD)
Albert Paulsen
(Henry Camerero)
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