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Released
2005 · FILM

Detective

Directed by
Runtime
171 min
CrimeDramaMystery
Streaming on
  • MUBI

Synopsis

Detective Sergeant Malcolm Ainslie, a former Catholic priest who became a respected police investigator, is about to hear the final confession of a convicted serial killer who is set to be executed in just a few hours. The killer promises to reveal the truth behind his crimes and explain why he confessed to a case that Ainslie has never believed he committed. As the two men engage in a tense and revealing conversation, a complex and winding journey into their shared and individual pasts unfolds, based on the bestselling novel by master storyteller Arthur Hailey.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 22

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Jennifer Jean CacavasShot by Maximo MunziScored by Jim DooleyDesigned by Chris Dileo

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