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
Shamus (video game) and tape for the Atari 8-bit family, and later sold by Atari on cartridge following the launch of the Atari XEGS in 1987. The VIC-20 port is 8K and contains only 32 levels, unlike the 128 in every other version. In 1999, Mataga developed a remake for the Game Boy Color, and later, both "Shamus" and "Shamus: Case II" for iOS. "Funeral March of a Marionette", the theme song from "Alfred Hitchcock Presents", plays on the title screen. Inspired by the arcade game "Berzerk", the objective of the game is to navigate the eponymous robotic detective through a 4-skill level,