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For many years, detectives were portrayed as analytical men carefully assembling minor facts and eventually constructing them into the solution to some crime; the progress from Sherlock Holmes to Sam Spade. In the 1970's there was a reaction to this theme, and suddenly detectives were eccentric and minimalist; the most important survivor is Columbo.
A man has disappeared, and the only lead is a connection with a New York prostitute (played by Jane Fonda), whom he evidently visited when there on business. When the police draw a blank, his family engage a man called Klute (Donald Sutherland) to track down the facts. Klute finds the woman, but she seems to know nothing, and much of the remainder of the film involves Klute slowly gaining her confidence and helping her to recall forgotten events.
But Klute is not entirely tactful, and early on when she thinks he had been judgmental about some of her unconventional activities with men, she lashes out at him ... "What's your bag, Klute?" and listing a string of non-vanilla practices, ending up with, "... or do you get it off wearing women's clothes?"
HF April 2007; (reported by Julia)
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