Gumshoe (film)
Gumshoe is a British 1971 film that was the theatrical directorial debut of director Stephen Frears.
Written by local author Neville Smith, who appears as Arthur, the film is set in Liverpool.
Albert Finney plays the role of Eddie Ginley, a bingo- caller and occasional club comedian who dreams of being a private eye of the kind he knows from films and pulp novels.
Having put an advertisement in a local newspaper( the" Liverpool Echo") as a birthday present to himself, Ginley is suddenly contacted for what appears to be an actual piece of detective work.
The film has many comic moments as it switches between' straight' detective novel and affectionate spoof.
It has some shots of Liverpool buildings that have long since been demolished, including the employment exchange on Leece Street.
Several scenes in the London part of the narrative take place in and around the occult Atlantis Bookshop.
" Gumshoe" was the first of two films with original music scores by Andrew Lloyd Webber( the other was" The Odessa File", in 1974).
Some of the music was re-used in Lloyd Webber's musical version of" Sunset Boulevard"( 1993).
Roy
Young recorded the song" Baby, You're Good For Me", written by Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice.
Despite its relatively lightweight tone, Frears's film is not without its contentious moments.
Its broadcast on TV is nowadays rare because of Ginley's use of racist language and insults( such as calling a black African character" Mighty Joe Young" and a" spade").
Another scene was significantly( and clumsily) shortened before release because of its detailed depiction of a heroin user preparing and taking his' fix'.
After years of unavailability," Gumshoe" was released on DVD in 2009.
The Strangers (2008 film)
The Strangers is a 2008 American slasher film written and directed by Bryan Bertino.
The plot follows Kristen( Liv Tyler) and James( Scott Speedman) whose stay at a vacation home is disrupted by three masked criminals who infiltrate the home.
Writer- director Bertino was inspired by real- life events: the Manson family
Tate murders, a multiple homicide; the Keddie Cabin Murders, that occurred in Keddie, CA and a series of break- ins that occurred in his own neighborhood as a child.
Made on a budget of$ 9 million, the film was shot on location in rural South Carolina in the fall of 2006.
Originally slated for a theatrical release in November 2007, it was postponed before a theatrical release on May 30, 2008.
It grossed$ 82 million at the box office worldwide and received mixed reviews from critics, with some praising its atmosphere and tension, and others criticizing its script and characters.
Contemporary film scholars have interpreted it as a criticism of the perceived safety of pastoral life, as well as an exploration of stranger- on- stranger violence.
A sequel, titled, was released on March 9, 2018.
Brian Johnson (special effects artist)
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Bryan Bertino
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best known as the writer/ director of" The Strangers"( 2008), as well as writing its 2018 sequel,, with Ben Ketai.
Howard W. Koch
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Stephen Frears
Stephen Arthur Frears( born 20 June 1941) is an English film and television director.
Frears has directed numerous films since the 1980s including" My Beautiful LaundretteDangerous Liaisons High Fidelity The QueenPhilomena", and" Florence Foster Jenkins".
He has been nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Director: for" The Grifters" and" The Queen".
In 2008" The Daily Telegraph" named him among the 100 most influential people in British culture.

Question: Are director of film Gumshoe (film) and director of film The Strangers (2008 film) from the same country?
Answer: no