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: Case II game "Berzerk" that was improved with extra features to make it more interesting. It was based on a top-down view of a series of rooms that the user moved through. The player, playing a robotic detective known as "Shamus", had to traverse the rooms, collecting keys and unlocking doors to progress towards the lair of the criminal mastermind, "The Shadow", defeating various re-spawning robotic adversaries. "Case II", in contrast, is a side-view game, in which Shamus chases The Shadow through his new underwater lair. The game map contains three types of rooms. The first, "pit rooms", are simple maze maps