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Bookmark this pageP.J. (1967)
Director: John Guillermin
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Peppard plays PJ Detweiler, down-at-heel shamus, in this unmemorable addition to the largely unmemorable private eye cycle of the late '60s. Hired (after undergoing a toughness test) by tycoon Raymond Burr - you know he's up to no good because he hoards his cigar butts - PJ gets to go to a murkily exotic island in the Bahamas as bodyguard to the tycoon's mistress (Hunnicutt) because someone has been trying to kill her. Beatings-up, attempted murders and red herrings proliferate before he solves the case. Gracelessly directed with a huge close-up to underline every plot point, it goes through the routine motions, offering very little apart from the odd wisecrack and a lot of thick-ear violence.Author: TM
Cast & crew
Director: John Guillermin
Producer: Edward J Montague
Cast: George Peppard, Raymond Burr, Gayle Hunnicutt, Coleen Gray, Susan Saint James, Brock Peters, Jason Evers, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Severn Darden, Bert Freed full cast
Genre(s): Thrillers
Duration: 109 mins
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