What is Gumshoe / The Midnight Man about?

Name: Gumshoe / The Midnight Man
Genre: Comedy,Drama

GUMSHOE, 1971, Sony Repertory, 88 min. Dir. Stephen Frears. Albert Finney retains his sarcastic humor in the most dire circumstances, whether it’s having to deal with his detested, upscale brother (Frank Finlay) who has married his girlfriend (Billie Whitelaw) or the complications that ensue on his first job as a detective, finding himself abruptly up to his eyeballs in smuggling, South African politics, seductive villainesses (Janice Rule) and homicide. THE MIDNIGHT MAN, 1974, Universal, 117 min. Dir. Roland Kibbee/Burt Lancaster. Former homicide detective Burt Lancaster, released after serving a term for shooting his unfaithful wife and her lover, finds the only job he can get is as a college campus security guard. After he discovers a break-in of a campus psychologist’s office, where patient tapes were stolen, the troubled student daughter of a politician is murdered. Sheriff Harris Yulin assigns guilt to a hapless, oddball janitor, but Lancaster believes differently.

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What is Gumshoe / The Midnight Man about?: GUMSHOE, 1971, Sony Repertory, 88 min. Dir. Stephen Frears. Albert Finney retains his sarcastic humor in the most dire circumstances, whether it’s having to deal with his detested, upscale brother (Frank Finlay) who has married his girlfriend (Billie Whitelaw) or the complications that ensue on his first job as a detective, finding himself abruptly up to his eyeballs in smuggling, South African politics, seductive villainesses (Janice Rule) and homicide.

THE MIDNIGHT MAN, 1974, Universal, 117 min. Dir. Roland Kibbee/Burt Lancaster. Former homicide detective Burt Lancaster, released after serving a term for shooting his unfaithful wife and her lover, finds the only job he can get is as a college campus security guard. After he discovers a break-in of a campus psychologist’s office, where patient tapes were stolen, the troubled student daughter of a politician is murdered. Sheriff Harris Yulin assigns guilt to a hapless, oddball janitor, but Lancaster believes differently.