Sentences with phrase «debut gumshoe»
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.
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Iconoclastic at the least, Frears turned his back on a career in law and began his tutelage in the arts at the Royal Court Theatre under Karel Reisz and, eventually, Lindsay Anderson, on whose fantastic If... he worked before making his feature debut with Gumshoe in 1971.
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.
My feature review of the DVD debut of Stephen Frears» Gumshoe is now up at athe Turner Classic movies website.