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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.
Anthony Jared Zerbe (born May 20, 1936) is an American actor. His notable film roles include the post-apocalyptic cult leader Matthias in The Omega Man, a 1971 film adaptation of Richard Matheson's 1954 novel, I Am Legend; as an Irish Catholic coal miner and one of the Molly Maguires in the 1970 film The Molly Maguires; as a corrupt gambler in Farewell, My Lovely; as the leper colony chief ...
The Laughing Policeman may refer to: "The Laughing Policeman" (song), a 1920s music-hall song by Charles Jolly (Charles Penrose) The Laughing Policeman, a 1968 detective novel by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö; The Laughing Policeman, a 1973 film based on the 1968 novel; The Laughing Policeman, a 1970s British children's television series ...
"The Laughing Policeman" is a music hall song recorded by British artist Charles Penrose, initially published under the pseudonym Charles Jolly in 1922.It is an adaptation of "The Laughing Song" first recorded in 1890 by American singer George W. Johnson with the same tune and form, but the subject was changed from a "dandy darky" to a policeman.
Maj Sjöwall, joint author of the series.. During the 1960s and 1970s, Sjöwall and Wahlöö conceived and wrote a series of ten police procedural novels about the exploits of detectives from the special homicide commission of the Swedish national police; in these the character of Martin Beck was the protagonist. [2]
Joanna Cassidy (born Joanna Virginia Caskey; August 2, 1945) [1] is an American actress and former model. She began working as a model in the 1960s and made her professional acting debut in 1973, appearing in the thriller films The Laughing Policeman and The Outfit.
We've all been there -- stuck in the middle of a laughing fit at the worst possible time. Well that's what happened to Anne Cutler, a news anchor at WGNO in New Orleans. Anne lost it live on air ...
The 1973 American film The Laughing Policeman is a loose adaptation of the novel. Jonathan Franzen has written an introduction for a Penguin Random House edition of the book. [2] He describes radically critical image of Sweden as 'comic'. Franzen's 2012 collection of essays Farther Away also contains a reprint of a 2008 piece, "On The Laughing ...