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  1. The Laughing Policeman (released in the UK as An Investigation of Murder) is a 1973 American neo-noir thriller film loosely based on the 1968 novel of the same name by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö. The setting of the story is transplanted from Stockholm to San Francisco.

  2. Jan 23, 1974 · The Laughing Policeman: Directed by Stuart Rosenberg. With Walter Matthau, Bruce Dern, Louis Gossett Jr., Albert Paulsen. In San Francisco, California, one victim in a mass murder is a police detective. His partner and a new partner investigate in the city's seamy side.

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    • Crime, Drama, Thriller
    • Stuart Rosenberg
    • 1974-01-23
  3. Jun 14, 2022 · Watch the full movie of The Laughing Policeman, a 1973 crime thriller based on a novel by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö. Follow the investigation of a brutal mass murder on a San Francisco bus ...

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  4. The Laughing Policeman (released in the UK as An Investigation of Murder) is a 1973 American neo-noir thriller film loosely based on the 1968 novel of the same name by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö. The setting of the story is transplanted from Stockholm to San Francisco.

    • 115 min
  5. Oct 27, 2015 Full Review Variety Staff Variety After an extremely overdone prolog of violent mass murder on a bus, The Laughing Policeman becomes a handsomely made manhunt actioner.

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    • Stuart Rosenberg
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    • Walter Matthau
  6. "The Laughing Policeman" is an awfully good police movie: taut, off-key, filled with laconic performances. It provides the special delight we get from gradually unraveling a complicated case. It's almost the kind of movie, indeed, to blast loose a detective-novel fan from Ross Macdonald.

  7. When a gunman opens fire on a crowded city bus in San Francisco, Detective Dave Evans is killed, along with the man he'd been following in relation to a murder. Evans' partner, Sgt. Jake Martin, becomes obsessed with solving the case. Stuart Rosenberg. Director, Screenplay.