With a script co-written by William Peter Blatty. Blake Edwards transferred Peter Gunn from the small screen to the big screen.
Set several years after the tv show finished. Craig Stevens is older and looks slightly out of place in the psychedelic swinging 60s. Nevermind the young woman who Gunn finds in his bed.
This was an era of hard boiled detectives such as Tony Roma taking advantage of relaxed censorship laws. These movies had more violence, a reflection of social issues and were more risque.
Gunn opens with the murder of an aging mobster Scarlotti in a boat by two people pretending to be coastguards.
The suspect is Nick Fusco who has taken over Scarlotti's crime empire. He is also demanding protection money from Mother.
Fusco also dislikes Peter Gunn who is looking into Scarlotti's murder. Fusco claims to have an alibi but it turns out that the woman who could confirm it ends up dead.
Over time Fusco himself gives Gunn a deadline to solve the killings. He tells Gunn that he is being set up.
Gunn is such an uneven thriller. It is convoluted and murky. There is a bizarre genderbending finale. The jazz songs just slows the pace down, just like it did in the television show.
Several people have been recast for the movie. Ed Asner plays Lieutenant Charles Jacoby. Helen Traubel is Mother. I note that in an episode of the tv show, Mother faced demands for protection money.
Set several years after the tv show finished. Craig Stevens is older and looks slightly out of place in the psychedelic swinging 60s. Nevermind the young woman who Gunn finds in his bed.
This was an era of hard boiled detectives such as Tony Roma taking advantage of relaxed censorship laws. These movies had more violence, a reflection of social issues and were more risque.
Gunn opens with the murder of an aging mobster Scarlotti in a boat by two people pretending to be coastguards.
The suspect is Nick Fusco who has taken over Scarlotti's crime empire. He is also demanding protection money from Mother.
Fusco also dislikes Peter Gunn who is looking into Scarlotti's murder. Fusco claims to have an alibi but it turns out that the woman who could confirm it ends up dead.
Over time Fusco himself gives Gunn a deadline to solve the killings. He tells Gunn that he is being set up.
Gunn is such an uneven thriller. It is convoluted and murky. There is a bizarre genderbending finale. The jazz songs just slows the pace down, just like it did in the television show.
Several people have been recast for the movie. Ed Asner plays Lieutenant Charles Jacoby. Helen Traubel is Mother. I note that in an episode of the tv show, Mother faced demands for protection money.