Sentences with phrase «as gumshoe»

The cast includes TV comedienne Polly Bergen as Sam's wife Peggy, Lori Martin as their daughter, Martin Balsam («Psycho's» ill - fated detective) as police chief Mark Dutton, Telly Savalas as gumshoe Charlie Sievers and Barrie Chase as Diane, a goodtime girl victimized by Cady.

Robert Urich returns to his role as the gumshoe.

He was not a talented CPA and then he failed just as bad as a gumshoe detective.

Not exact matches

As Marxist historians and fictional American gumshoes know, you just have to follow the money to make sense of it all.

Occasionally, I still run into a manager who thinks of headhunting as this old «gumshoe» approach, where key employees are lured behind potted palms to discuss wild offers of impressive stature and dramatic salary increases.

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Nevertheless Bogart exemplifies cool collected style as the self - assured gumshoe.

The unseen events bookending Easy Rawlins» (Denzel Washington) transition from disaffected war veteran to private investigator - namely his former criminal escapades with a trigger - happy associate in Texas (Don Cheadle) versus his further adventures as a fully - fledged gumshoe - unfortunately sound a lot more interesting than the story we are being told, making this feel like a sequel to, or a two - hour trailer for, an even better film.

But Dave Kehr's Reader capsule, written some time later, is probably more judicious: «Not just another genre rehash (cf Farewell, My Lovely; The Long Goodbye; Gumshoe), but a genuinely ingratiating private - eye update with Art Carney as a middle - aged Marlowe trying to find out who killed his partner.

He plays Brendan, a brooding teenage loner with the panache of a wisecracking gumshoe (think Humphrey Bogart as a high - school senior), who follows a trail of clues through a drug - fueled criminal underworld while investigating the disappearance of his ex-girlfriend.

Long before the Noir period started, sound on film ushered in several great series of detective movie series where the lead was usually a bright crime solver, but the gumshoe, gritty detective was not far behind and Noir kicked in just in time for that kind of investigator as the classical detectives (Charlie Cahn, Mr. Moto, Sherlock Holmes, The Thin Man) were on a roll that even defied studio expectations.

The film's originality stems from a private eye named Visser (Walsh) whose double cross leads to a series of misunderstandings and terror stricken scenes between the lovers as they try to outsmart the gumshoe to ensure their own survival.

Stephen Frears» directorial debut Gumshoe, a cockeyed detective film starring Albert Finney as a small - time bingo caller who plays at being a private detective for fun and ends up in the middle of a real mystery, and Arch Oboler's 1951 end - of - the - world drama Five, a low budget, high concept film he produced independently, also arrive under the «Martini Movies» imprint.

The picture might be the most overt iteration of film noir as a genre about emasculation ever put to celluloid, and trying to puzzle out whether Waldo's for real and chief gumshoe McPherson (Andrews) buys any of his honeyed hooey constitutes a good portion of what's fun and maddening in equal measure about it.

The five films in this eccentric collection are the hipster youth generation satire Getting Straight with Elliot Gould; the Jeff Goldblum psychics - on - the - run comedy Vibes (notable as the feature debut of Cindi «She - Bop» Lauper); Stephen Frears» first film Gumshoe with Albert Finney; and the first - ever home video releases of Arch Oboler's 1951 end - of - the - world drama Five and Carol Reed's 1959 spy satire Our Man in Havana.

The story of ultra-macho Los Angeles gumshoe Mike Hammer (Ralph Meeker) smiting bad guys and spurning women as he wrestles with a whodunit is a tad misogynistic, but I'll let that pass because this is a portrayal of a rough and violent, sometimes sadistic, world overall.

Utilizing anachronistic gumshoe dialogue in the style of Dashiell Hammett, director Rian Johnson assembled a seemingly clever detective story that uses a «brick» of heroin as the MacGuffin, and a dead girl as a plot device.

Konkle is very well cast as the weary, yet noble, gumshoe who may be in over his head.

Steve Martin steps into the gumshoes of Inspector Jacques Clouseau, the character made famous by actor Peter Sellers, and does an admirable job as the clumsy crime fighter on the trail of a stolen diamond called The Pink Panther.

Ghostwriter becomes gumshoe as McGregor starts sniffing about (quite haplessly really) filling his nostrils with the stench of conspiracy and deceit.

The big name ensemble cast are all eminently watchable, including Josh Brolin as the proxy Noiresque gumshoe studio executive, Scarlett Johansson as a glamorous yet acerbic Brooklyn - accented starlet and Alden Ehrenreich as the goodnatured but talent devoid star of generic cowboy pictures.

Numerous cast changes o (more...) Aaron Spelling's jiggly classic about gorgeous gumshoes working for an unseen boss garnered as much derision as it did male viewers.

One voice could be another in the next volume but if I had it my way I'd be gumshoeing as the great detective for as long as Nintendo allows me to do so.

The two fictional gumshoes in Brian De Palma's hotly - anticipated adaptation of James Ellroy's brilliant L.A. noir The Black Dahlia (and who better to join in holy matrimony than the insane Ellroy and the almost - as - insane De Palma?)

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The opening chapters are written in a style which is redolent of the old gumshoe detectives (Mike Hammer et al.) which adds to the humor, however that style disappears as the novel unfolds, which is a shame.

Thomas Perry is the author of the Jane Whitefield series as well as the best - selling novels Nightlife, Death Benefits, and Pursuit, the first recipient of the Gumshoe Award for Best Novel.

Rome at that time seemed an ideal alternative to the big metropolitan settings of so may «gumshoe» novels - a huge, dangerous, colourful city that saw itself as the centre of the world.

- PlayDetective: Heartbreakers [Windows Mobile](Kayo Games)(«PlayDetective: Heartbreakers puts you in the gumshoes of a private investigator as he investigates a series of infidelity cases.

Fans of FMV, adventure games, and that lovable gumshoe Tex Murphy have a lot to be thankful for today as Tesla Effect has finally arrived in all its glory.

Brash new lead detective Bobby Fulbright entertains as well, although he pales in comparison to previous investigators Dick Gumshoe and Ema Skye.

A large figure taunts him as he explores the hallways and classrooms, dispatching minions to stop the gumshoe for good.

In the former times presenting research as a strategy for artistic practice, had remained the sole domain of research funding from higher education institutions, as it is often a precarious and beguiling balance based on strategic re-formulation; Slavs» and Tartars» regional linguistic web - like encasing or Simon Fujiwara's intriguing journeys involving gumshoe archeology, travel and sexuality are dependent on revealing specific correlations; their instigations have won over funders willing to stay the course, a condition that allows a great deal of curatorial independence.