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detectives

n. (plural of detective English)

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Detectives (film)

Detectives is a 1928 silent film comedy produced and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was directed by Chester Franklin with elements of the old-house melodrama genre. The film is another outing for Karl Dane, George K. Arthur and Marceline Day. Clips of the film appeared in Robert Youngson's MGM's Big Parade of Comedy in 1965. One scene has George K. Arthur disappearing while within the hanging covers of a large canopy bed.

The film is preserved by MGM. A trailer is preserved in the Library of Congress collection.

Usage examples of "detectives".

Only a slight belly bespoke the junk food he often ate a staple for many detectives, obliged to eat on the run.

As the detectives approached from either side, cutting off any escape, Nick was stuffing something into his pants.

As Homicide detectives saw it, solving a murder took priority over most everything else.

Neither had been seen that day, and eventually the detectives returned to the homeless shelters.

It was a patently false story, though not contested by the uniforms, who knew that Homicide detectives would do the important questioning.

No one but Homicide 24 Arthur Halley detectives, civilian Homicide staff, and a few senior officers had key-cards.

Two other hard-boiled detectives created by Daly, Vee Brown and Satan Hall, followed in the same formula.

There was a lot of talk and newspaper men from the city came over and detectives and one thing and another.

The detectives chorused it, in their voices sarcasmand just a tinge of something else, too.

The two men from the burglar-alarm company nodded to the two detectives, and their eyes narrowed as they shook the hand of the problemist.

Colton could not refrain from adding that last scornful word to the two detectives who had not seen until a blind man had shown them.

Marshalled aloud like that and conveyed to somebody else, a lieutenant of detectives above all, it did sound flimsy, even to me.

He used to be a teacher in the Ohio State University, and he taught detectives how to detect.

More fascinated by psychological motivation than by material motive, even in stories featuring police detectives, she would rather toy with their relationships to the criminals than dog their footsteps as they follow police procedure.

There were perhaps sixty members of the force present already, about evenly divided between detectives and uniformed patrolmen.