Shamus (1973)

Cast includes:
CHARACTER	ACTOR/ACTRESS	RATING
Shamus McCoy	Burt Reynolds
Alexis Montaigne	Dyan Cannon	½
Hardcore	John Ryan
Lieutenant Promuto	Joe Santos

Review

There are a few times during this half-baked crime-comedy-transvestite when Burt Reynolds is improvising and letting loose, whereupon both his co-star Dyan Cannon and the film itself is vitalized, almost to the point of relevance. Except for these moments, however, Shamus is a steady showing of 1970s mediocrity, complete with overemphasized and unimpressive chases, sleazy conspirators and conspiring sleazeballs. Luckily (and somewhat weirdly), many such movies had Burt in them, and that usually made them at least watchable.