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 make it to the top, they can get above the rows of enemies and bounce repeatedly, as in the game "Breakout". After Shamus has destroyed two waves of enemies, or killed all of the snakes in one of the horizontal rows, the play freezes and the map begins to scroll vertically to reveal a new area above the last room. In this case the floor is not continuous, but instead consists of a number of blocks with open areas between them. The player has to be sure to move over one of the blocks by the time the screen is