Desc: Gumshoe: Directed by Stephen Frears. With Albert Finney, Billie Whitelaw, Frank Finlay, Janice Rule. Inspired by his love for Dashiell Hammett novels, nightclub comedian Eddie Ginley puts an ad in the paper as a private eye. The case he gets turns out to be a strange setup and as he digs to the bottom of it his life starts falling apart.