A funny, quirky cult movie that laid the foundation for Stephen Frear's career.
- Stephen Frears has been nominated for two Oscars, was listed as one of the most powerful people in British culture, and made High Fidelity - but this was his first feature film.
- This also happens to be the first of two films to have original music scores by Andrew Lloyd Webber.
- Albert Finney was named for a British Academy Award for his role as the led in Gumshoe.
Albert Finney stars as a bingo-caller who, bored with life, takes out a newspaper ad offering his services as a private detective. Soon Finney is detecting all over Liverpool.
Stephen Frears
