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Gumshoe

1971, Movie, PG, 88 mins

Gumshoe: Review

This offbeat feature debut from director Stephen Frears (MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE, DANGEROUS LIAISONS, THE GRIFTERS) cleverly satirizes the detective films of the past, particularly those featuring the hardboiled private eyes created by Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler. Finney, a bingo caller in a seedy Liverpool nightclub who envisions himself as a tough detective a la Humphrey Bogart, advertises his sleuthing services and is hired by a mysterious fat man (Silver). Afte... read more leave a comment

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Gumshoe (1971) -- (Movie Clip) Make Your Play

Albert Finney (as near-delusional wanna-be Private Eye Eddie Ginley) takes a job then opens a package on board a Liverpool bus, in director Stephen Frears' Gumshoe, 1971.
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Gumshoe (1971) -- (Movie Clip) Opening, Eddie

Albert Finney (as "Eddie Ginley") waxes comic-noir, narrating in the opening of director Stephen Frears' first feature Gumshoe, 1971, co-starring Carolyn Seymour and Frank Finlay.
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Gumshoe (1971) -- (Movie Clip) Wyatt Colon Alison

Aspiring private-eye Eddie (Albert Finney) visits his mark, Ms. Wyatt (Carolyn Seymour) in a Liverpool university library in an early scene from director Stephen Frears' Gumshoe, 1971.
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Posted: 11/7/2009