Sentences with word «gumshoe»

A group of journalistic gumshoes for the Pittsburg High School student newspaper in Kansas did some All the President's Men - level sleuthing on their incoming principal and found that her credentials didn't add up.

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.

Julia Spencer - Fleming is the New York Times bestselling author of One Was A Soldier, and an Agatha, Anthony, Dilys, Barry, Macavity, and Gumshoe Award winner.

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.

Aaron Spelling's jiggly classic about gorgeous gumshoes working for an unseen boss garnered as much derision as it did male viewers.

It's looks great on you.I tried on the purple gumshoe sweater coat yesterday & fell in love — it's on my wishlist & I * hope * it makes it to the sales.

He subtly conveys the conflicted nature of this two - bit gumshoe whose conscience just might outweigh his judgment.

Doc is the direct descendent of the Philip Marlowe of Altman's The Long Goodbye: the quintessential»70s gumshoe who gains no profit from wisdom and is more representative anyway of a mood than of a true characterization.

asked David Grandeau, the state's former chief lobbying investigator and widely seen by government watchdogs as one of Albany best gumshoes.

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?)

Mike Church (Branagh) is an L.A. gumshoe with a knack for tossing off wisecracks and tracking down missing persons.

A great newspaper movie of the old - school model, calling up not only obvious comparisons with «All the President's Men» and «Zodiac,» two movies with similar devotion to the sometimes crushingly boring gumshoe part of reportage, but also Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell shouting into adjacent phones in «His Girl Friday.»

«Spotlight» is a great newspaper movie of the old - school model, calling up not only obvious comparisons with «All the President's Men» and «Zodiac,» two movies with similar devotion to the sometimes crushingly boring gumshoe part of reportage, but also Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell shouting into adjacent phones in «His Girl Friday.»

There's a moment in particular when amateur gumshoes Patrick (Casey Affleck) and Angie (Michelle Monaghan) are flanked by veteran homicide dicks Remy Bressant (Ed Harris) and Nick Poole (John Ashton) at the beginning of an interrogation sequence that made my heart leap with joy.

Okay, so director Rian Johnson's teenage gumshoe doesn't exactly have a professional license, but Brick is so indebted to the detective fiction of Dashiell Hammett that excluding it would be a noir travesty.

In adapting Thomas Pynchon's rambling, drug - fried gumshoe novel set in 1970 Los Angeles, Anderson has returned to the funkier ensemble rhythms of his breakthrough, Boogie Nights, but wrapped them in the audacious style of The Master.

From Benedict Cumberbatch's «Sherlock» and Robert Downey, Jr.'s «Sherlock Holmes,» to CBS's «Elementary,» and a number of Holmes - related titles, interest in Sherlock Holmes - style gumshoe has swelled in recent years, and fans are lapping it up.

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

Now we at Omega Underground have learned through a recent production listing that the upcoming working title for Detective Pikachu would be called Gumshoe.

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.

Brolin's lead lies somewhere between Sam Spade and Walter Neff; his fixer is a hard boiled gumshoe, worn out and spread thin by the absurdities of it all, a true fish out of water.

In Lori Foster's latest, Trace of Fever, freelance gumshoe Trace Rivers has gone undercover to undo Murray Coburn, a goateed psychopath who's made his money in human trafficking and owns just about everyone who thinks they have power.

In Lori Foster's latest, Trace of Fever, freelance gumshoe Trace Rivers has gone...

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.

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

It's a real - life drama involving a celebrity gumshoe, prostitution charges and the Brooklyn District Attorney's office.

It also differs from most mystery books in that the main characters are not dashing gumshoes, inquisitive eccentrics, or cynical cops.

Columbia University virologist Ian Lipkin praises the Wellcome group's work for combining the genetic analysis with «classical gumshoe epidemiology,» but isn't convinced by the authors» bottom line.

Havana and Gumshoe!!

Contending with terrible pain, boredom, self - pity and a meddlesome sister who just may be out for an inheritance, a wheelchair - bound cancer patient imagines a parallel world in which his world - weary alter - ego, L.A. gumshoe Rick Stone, searches for the would - be killer of a blonde femme fatale.

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

By forcing these two characters — along with gumshoe Guy Lapointe (Johnny Depp), who also appeared in Tusk — to do battle with a malefactor from Canada's past, Yoga Hosers is meant, to some degree, to chronicle the two girls» increasing awareness of a world outside their narrow fame - obsessed purview.

Hired to investigate the «accidental» death of the son of one of Ernie's old girlfriends, the two lizardy gumshoes stumble upon a cult called the Voice of Progress, comprised of fanatical dinosaurs who want to wipe out all humans and take over the world.

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.

There are marquee screenings not long after dawn and teatime premieres; four - hour Holocaust documentaries for supper and Asian gumshoe flicks at midnight.

A bungling gumshoe uncovers more than just a simple kidnapping when he searches for the Miami Dolphins» missing mascot.

Outrageous and unpredictable, this totally rewatchable and even more mean - spirited gumshoe comedy was right on the line but ultimately was beat out by stiff competition.

His assistants included his secretary and ex-showgirl, Bea [Phyllis Davis], current showgirl Angie [Judy Anders] and gumshoe wannabe, Bobby Binzer [Bart Braverman].

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.

Adapted and directed by Carl Franklin (three years removed from his breakthrough film, the 1992 indie hit One False Move), Devil in a Blue Dress was one of the era's more successful attempts at a neo-noir, with Washington's amateur gumshoe subjected to the genre's established beats: harassment from cops and crooks alike, come - hither looks from potential femmes fatales, and confusing clues that eventually snap into place.