Good to see this available to download on Amazon It's a bizarre movie but fun, Albert Finney puts in a star turn as a noir movie obsessive who starts his own detective agency in Liverpool. Soon he has a gun, a girl and a grand.
I loved the cinematography by a young Chris Menges and there's a cast full of British actors.
The curio factor here is that it's one of two movies scored by Andrew Lloyd Webber and it's really good. He gets the sense of the noir genre and his main romantic melody serves the film well, though it probably served Sunset Boulevard better when he used it in his adaptation of the Billy Wilder classic.
All in all if you are a fan of British movies and you also like a quirky movie it's worth giving this a go. Finney of course is the star and holds it all together.
Amazon should add a warning to it for racially offensive language as towards the end the script does get extremely dated. So just be aware.
I loved the cinematography by a young Chris Menges and there's a cast full of British actors.
The curio factor here is that it's one of two movies scored by Andrew Lloyd Webber and it's really good. He gets the sense of the noir genre and his main romantic melody serves the film well, though it probably served Sunset Boulevard better when he used it in his adaptation of the Billy Wilder classic.
All in all if you are a fan of British movies and you also like a quirky movie it's worth giving this a go. Finney of course is the star and holds it all together.
Amazon should add a warning to it for racially offensive language as towards the end the script does get extremely dated. So just be aware.