Sentences with phrase «gumshoe whose»

They're all here: the dame in peril, the sexy femme fatale, the handicapped mob boss and the gumshoe whose quick wits are bound to put him in the bad guys» sights — it's just that they also happen to be teenagers.

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

Not exact matches

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.

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.

In Howard Hawks» film noir staple, author Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe comes to electrifying life in the hands of Humphrey Bogart, whose gumshoe keeps busy flirting with the ladies when he isn't whipping off snappy comebacks (my fave: «I don't like your manners.»