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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Sony
EAN: 0043396285750
Format: Color, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Sony Pictures
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageEnglishSubtitled
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
MPN: 28575
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 99
Release Date: February 03, 2009
Running Time: 88 minutes
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: 1971
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Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 02/03/2009
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This little British gem is a must-have for all fans of hard-boiled detective films--and their spoofs. Gumshoe actually succeeds at being both--a sendup of classic '40s Raymond Chandler masterpieces, but particularly cheeky in that singular English manner. Albert Finney plays a struggling comedian who, on a lark, decides to place an ad as a private eye ("no divorce work"). Finney affects just about every classic tic of the genre: the side-of-the-mouth delivery, the world-weary outlook ("It was the kind of a place where you needed a black tie just to take a bath"), the quip-for-quip dialogue. But then he’s sucked right into the world he’s been dancing around, complete with murder plots, drug smuggling, blowzy dames, and too-close calls. Finney’s believable as a real private dick, and is also subtly hilarious sending up the genre. The film was directed by a young Stephen Frears, and his deft touch keeps the sometimes out-there plot moving forward confidently. And Andrew Lloyd Webber provides the memorable score, which film music fans will recognize as an homage to the theme of the all-time great film noir masterpiece Sunset Boulevard. Sam Spade would be proud. --A.T. Hurley
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Rating:  -
"Gumshoe" is a rare bird indeed. A homage to old-style detective films that could also serve as parody. Fledgling director Stephen Frears neatly walks that tightrope and comes out with flying colors. The film is funny but at the same time respectful of detective convention notably the work of Dashiell Hammett particularly "The Maltese Falcon". It helps that your star, Albert Finney, is at the top of his game here as a stand-up comic turned accidental private eye. This isn't a buyer beware because ... Read More
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This is a gem; worthy of cult status.
But is my memory deceiving me or is there a bit missing -at least on the dvd version. I could swear there was a substantial segment of the movie where Eddie is calling a bingo game that evolves into a confrontation with his brother. In this verbal altercation Eddie identifies with those bingo players as opposed to those who can "compete", such as his brother. A telling scene that foreshadows the more recent scandals of CEO corruption and lost worker's pensions. ... Read More
Rating:  -
I am still trying to figure out what makes a film a "Martini Movie," but this is the best one in the series so far. An alarmingly young Albert Finney plays a bored Liverpuddlian would-be comedian who places an advertisement promoting himself as a private eye and gets more than he bargained for. This early Stephen Frears film is both a sendup and a celebration of pulp private-eye film noir, tight, crisp, clever without being precious, darkly comic, and downright scary when it needs to be. Finney bounces off ... Read More
Rating:  -
I've read reviews of this film that praised it, that discussed it as a cult classic. For me it only fell into that category by being a misguided film that made little sense and felt more hodge podge than most films. In essence, a movie that offered little entertainment but plenty of "what's going on here?"
Albert Finney plays Eddie Ginley, a bingo caller and wanna be comedian at a local club.
Bored and a fan of tough P.I. novels, Eddie has placed an ad in the local classifieds on a lark. ... Read More
Rating: -
A lovable Liverpudlian loser plays at Philip Marlowe in this English re-examination of the private detective genre similar to those that flourished stateside in the early 70s. This one though is like a cross between Billy Liar and The Big Sleep and manages to be both amusing and yet offers some believable tension to the story's hardboiled moments. It's not a classic like The Long Goodbye or Night Moves, but it beats dreck like Peeper. And director Stephen Frears pours on the local color. The no-frills DVD ... Read More
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