Shamus (film) Shamus (film) Shamus is a 1973 American comedy thriller film directed by Buzz Kulik, and starring Burt Reynolds and Dyan Cannon. New York private detective Shamus McCoy is called to the house of Hume, an eccentric diamond dealer, and is given the task of recovering some stolen diamonds. His investigation is thwarted at every turn and it is only when he is beaten by a gang of thugs to warn him off the job that he realizes that he's onto something really big. Using his friend Springy as well as Alexis Montaigne, the sister of a nightclub owner, McCoy digs
Gareb Shamus in the 1980s). Shamus studied economics at the University at Albany, SUNY and graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics and a minor in art in 1990. In the 1980s, Shamus' parents opened a sports card and comic book store in Nanuet, New York, where Shamus worked. When he graduated from college, Shamus started a newsletter about comic books, called "", for the store’s customers. It became so popular that in 1991 he turned it into a monthly magazine. After only one year, "Wizard" went worldwide, published in over fifty countries and in multiple languages.