Bruce Dern and Walter Matthau are all smiles in ‘The Laughing Policeman’, 1973

Walter Matthau, Bruce Dern and Lou Gossett, Jr. star in The Laughing Policeman, released in December of 1973. The film, directed by Stuart Rosenberg and based on the book by Swedish writers Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, focuses on the search for a mass murderer in San Francisco.

In Matthau’s film timeline, Policeman came out between ’73’s Charley Varrick and ’74’s The Taking of Pelham One Two Three. View the trailer below.

The Laughing Policeman Wiki, IMDb