Murder Is My Business (Private Detectives in films & TV)
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"When a man's partner is killed, he's supposed to do something about it. It doesn't make any difference what you thought of him. He was your partner and you're supposed to do something about it. And it happens we're in the detective business. Well, when one of your organization gets killed, it's-it's bad business to let the killer get away with it, bad all around, bad for every detective everywhere."
Humphrey Bogart as Samuel Spade in The Maltese Falcon (1941).
Humphrey Bogart as Samuel Spade in The Maltese Falcon (1941).
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After the Thin Man (1936), Song of the Thin Man (1947), Shadow of the Thin Man (1941), The Thin Man Goes Home (1945).
A series of seven films.
Plenty of Charlie Chan films.
Plenty of Boston Blackie films.
First in a series of 16 films.