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- The film's box office performance was described as "modest". On Rotten Tomatoes it has an approval rating of 44% based on 9 reviews. Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film 2 stars out of 4 and called it "an ambitious Charles Bronson picture that looks good but finally doesn't quite work.
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“Shamus” is an uneasy mixture of 1970s violence, 1950s sex and 1930s private-eye movies. The violence is probably what’s intended to sell the movie; the sex is low-key and kind of friendly, and the 1930s stuff includes some specific satire of “The Big Sleep.”
Abner Procane hires Raymond St. Ives, a crime reporter and ex-policeman, to return five ledgers stolen from his safe. St. Ives becomes embroiled in the task and the deaths of those involved in the theft.
Burt Reynolds plays a streetwise private detective from Brooklyn hired by an eccentric millionaire to locate diamonds stolen by flamethrower-wielding killers, a burglary that may be a cover for an export deal in government arms; wealthy Dyan Cannon also hires the shambling shamus (for $75 dollars a day plus expenses!) to follow her suspicious-ac...
St. Ives is a 1976 American crime thriller film directed by J. Lee Thompson and starring Charles Bronson, John Houseman, Jacqueline Bisset, and Maximilian Schell. The film was the first of nine collaborations between Bronson and director J. Lee Thompson.
Easygoing crime writer Raymond St. Ives (a solid and convincing performance by Charles Bronson) gets hired by wealthy eccentric and criminal mastermind Abner Procane (wonderfully played by John Houseman) to retrieve a bunch of incriminating documents that were stolen from him.
In 1973, Burt Reynolds got in on the act with Shamus, a film loosely based on the 87th Precinct novels by Ed McBain, the nom de plume of Evan Hunter. As Shamus McCoy, Reynolds plays a rough-edged private eye who is quick with his fists ... and even quicker with his pick-up lines.
Feb 1, 1973 · Shamus: Directed by Buzz Kulik. With Burt Reynolds, Dyan Cannon, John P. Ryan, Joe Santos. Millions in diamonds are stolen from a safe in NYC and later the burglar is killed. Shamus is paid $10,000 by the owner to find the diamonds or killer.
