That's what Robert Benton's Twilight is. Paul Newman, Gene Hackman, Susan Sarandon together in a movie add up to blazing starpower. There's no shortage of footcandles in that department. But these three venerable and skilled actors are put to work trying to teach new tricks to a stale old dog-eared paperback mystery. No film could be a better eulogy for the film noir style than this one.
Twilight is grey-hair noir.
Hackman's dying of cancer. He dispatches Newman on an errand. Newman gets shot at by a dying man. Even though he's just a sobered-up handyman with a lapsed P.I. license, Newman's sucked into an intrigue. Hackman and Sarandon have a bloody secret and Newman's getting manipulated into making efforts on their behalf so that it doesn't come to light.