THE BIG FIX (1978: Dir. Jeremy Paul Kagan)
For years only available as an Hungarian DVD, this lost gumshoe classic must rate as actor Richard Dreyfuss' most forsaken cinematic effort. Dreyfuss, both starring and producing, brings his trademark vibrating intensity and effortless screen charisma to novelist Roger L. Simon's ex-hippie private eye Moses Wine, now facing the cynical post Watergate era in which, Sixties radicalism has congealed into political expediency. Adapted by Simon from the first in his series of Wine mysteries, this satisfying mix of suspense, tragedy, humour and social commentary, was truly a lost opportunity for a viable film franchise featuring a unique Seventies detective. DVD
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