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can't find the name of an old detective movie???

posted 12 years ago by vlady666
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long ago (over 20 years) i saw on TV a movie (it looked like an 80´s movie)about a detective with an apparent drinking problem, who gets hired to solve a case, but everytime he drank from a bottle, that he kept on his raincoat he suffered blackouts, the detective begins to think he might be the criminal, but by the end of the movie he discovers that the person who hired him has been applying some drug on his alcohol producing the amnesia.

I remember the detective wearing a fedora and long raincoat.

¿ does it sound familiar ?

¿ can someone tell me the name of that movie ?

Thanks in advance.

[–] lynxx55 8 years ago

There's a special board for those kind of questions. Please go to "Message Boards", then check out the sub board "I Need to Know".

[–] CarlCarlson 8 years ago

Ever find out?

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[–] vlady666 8 years ago

Hi

Someone suggested that the movie was "Stranger by Night (1994)" but I Am not quite sure it was.

Still the plot is fairly similar.

[–] CarlCarlson 8 years ago

Stranger by night (1994 movie) Jennifer rubin,Steven Bauer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laAWKgi3-EU

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