1971 · crime · comedy · noir
Gumshoe
Directed by Stephen Frears1h 28m1971
A would be private eye gets mixed up in a smuggling case.
Our read: Gumshoe (1971) reads as a neutral, kinetic, grounded crime · comedy · noir entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, kinetic, measured crime / comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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