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Shamus is a american film of genre Drama directed by Buzz Kulik released in USA on 31 january 1973 with Burt Reynolds
Shamus (1973)
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Add to a movie listShamus is a 1973 American film directed by Buzz Kulik, and stars Burt Reynolds and Dyan Cannon.
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Shamus, un détective privé, est chargé d'enquêter sur la mort d'un vendeur de diamants. Peu à peu, il découvre qu'un trafic d'armes se cache derrière cet assassinat, dont le chef n'est autre que celui qui lui a confié l'enquête...Actors
Burt Reynolds
(Shamus McCoy)
Dyan Cannon
(Alexis Montaigne)
John P. Ryan
(Col. Craig C. Hardcore)
Joe Santos
(Lieutenant Promuto)
John P. Ryan
(Hardcore)
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Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
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Rating58%
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, 1h37Directed by Buzz Kulik
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Biography, Comedy, Action
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Rating66%
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, 2h28Directed by Buzz Kulik
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Crawlspace (1972)
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Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror
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Themes Films about terrorism, Transport films, Aviation films, Road movies, Dans un avion, Heist films, Chase films, Films about hijackings
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Rating55%
The film opens with the hijacker leaving a plane by its aft airway on a clear day, parachuting into a forest in Washington. The man is later identified as Jim Meade (Treat Williams), an ex-Army man with big dreams. Meade escapes the manhunt using a jeep he had previously hidden in the forest and concealing the money in the carcass of a deer. He eventually meets up with his estranged wife Hannah (Kathryn Harrold), who operates a river rafting company. Meanwhile, Meade is being hunted by Bob Gruen (Robert Duvall), an insurance investigator who was Meade's sergeant in the Army, and Meade's Army buddy Remson (Paul Gleason), who listened when Meade had talked about hijacking a plane.
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, 1h30Directed by Buzz Kulik
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Themes Pregnancy films, Films about sexuality
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Rating70%
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, 1h14Directed by Buzz Kulik
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror
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Rating65%
Ronald Wilby (Scott Jacoby) is a socially inept, awkward high school youth with budding artistic talent and a predilection for fantasy, who is often ridiculed for his behavior and mannerisms. His overprotective mother, Elaine (Kim Hunter of the first three Planet of the Apes films) is in need of surgery and plans for Ronald to become a doctor and cure her illness. Ronald's father has not been heard from in years, having divorced his mother and then agreeing to terminate his parental rights in exchange for not having to pay child support.
The Yellow Canary (1963)
, 1h33Directed by Buzz Kulik
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Pat Boone, Barbara Eden, Steve Forrest, Jack Klugman, Jesse White, Milton Selzer
Rating67%
Andy Paxton (Boone) is an arrogant, obnoxious pop idol who is about to be divorced by his wife (Eden) and constantly abuses his staff. On the same night he begins an engagement at the Huntington Hartford Theater in Los Angeles, his infant son is kidnapped. Despite the pleas of Lieutenant Bonner (Klugman), the lead police officer on the case, Paxton insists on playing along with the kidnappers, even though they keep stringing him along and have no problem with killing people.
Cage Without a Key (1975)
Directed by Buzz Kulik
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
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Rating64%
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