Columbia Pictures
Directed by Stephen Frears
My rating: 3 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Sony)
Albert Finney channels his best Bogie as an amateur private eye in Liverpool who gets mixed up with a group of drug traffickers. Finney is practically the whole show, with numerous one-liners in an excellent performance he is obviously having fun with. It's both a satire of The Maltese Falcon and a bona fide mystery in its own right. Billie Whitelaw is an ex-girlfriend now married to his brother, a touchy situation with some good scenes between the threesome. It all leads to an unexpected denouement in London where true identities are revealed.
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