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The sleuth, the whole sleuth and nothing but the sleuth.
Ginley is a nightclub bingo caller eager for a career change. On his thirty-first birthday, he advertises himself as a private eye in the newspaper. He dons a trench coat, and begins engaging others in rapid-fire dialogue as if he were Humphrey Bogart, or some Dashiell Hammett creation. Soon after, Ginley is phoned by a fat man, who gives him a package containing a gun, a photograph, and a large sum of money...
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Ginley's the name Gumshoe's the game
cloughie2 | 05/04/2008 | See all cloughie2's reviews (1) »
This affectionate pastiche of 'private eye' thrillers is the perfect 'little' film. Albert Finney and Billie Whitelaw are superb (when were they not?) and the supporting cast reads like a who's who of British character actors.
Radio Times recently called it a hidden gem and that is exactly what it is. Please let it be released on DVD soon and get it out of hiding.
My tastes often tend toward the epic (2001, Lawrence of Arabia etc) but it's great to have a film among my favourites that no one's ever heard of.
Albert Finney, Billie Whitelaw, Frank Finlay, Janice Rule, Carolyn Seymour & Fulton Mackay | |
12 years and over | |
1971 | |
English | |
Region 2 - Will only play on European Region 2 or multi-region DVD players. |
