{"id":13805,"date":"2020-10-13T21:00:11","date_gmt":"2020-10-14T01:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=13805"},"modified":"2020-10-13T18:51:46","modified_gmt":"2020-10-13T22:51:46","slug":"gumshoe-1971-stephen-frears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/13805","title":{"rendered":"Gumshoe (1971, Stephen Frears)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Albert Finney is a would-be comedian and general smartass, places an ad in the paper announcing himself as a private eye and immediately gets in over his head.  It&#8217;s a good premise, because at no point is Finney an actual detective &#8211; when he finds a gun at a crime scene, he keeps playing with it and shows it off to everyone he sees.<\/p>\n<p><em>Albert:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image20\/gumshoe2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Finney&#8217;s brother William (Frank Finlay, one of Lester&#8217;s <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/8805\">Musketeers<\/a>) is the type of serious businessman who also knows how to dispose of a dead body, and the brother&#8217;s girl who used to be Finney&#8217;s girl is his <em>Charlie Bubbles<\/em> costar Billie Whitelaw.  Clues lead to an occult bookstore lead to a heroin trade.  There&#8217;s a hot library girl, some racism, and some unusually good dialogue.<\/p>\n<p><em>Billie:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image20\/gumshoe1.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Albert Finney is a would-be comedian and general smartass, places an ad in the paper announcing himself as a private eye and immediately gets in over his head. It&#8217;s a good premise, because at no point is Finney an actual detective &#8211; when he finds a gun at a crime scene, he keeps playing with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[400,1183,2728,102,136,2727,619],"class_list":["post-13805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1970s","tag-albert-finney","tag-billie-whitelaw","tag-britain","tag-drugs","tag-fake-detective","tag-stephen-frears"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13805"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13834,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13805\/revisions\/13834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}