Clegg (film)

Clegg (also known as The Bullet Machine, Clegg Private Eye and Harry and the Hookers) is a 1970 British crime film directed by Lindsay Shonteff and starring Gilbert Wynne, in his first starring film role.

Plot
Ex-policeman and now private detective Harry Clegg is hired by wealthy businessman Lord Cruickshank to investigate a death-threat letter he has received, which leads to a string of murders, some by Clegg himself.

Cast

 * Gilbert Wynne as Harry Clegg
 * Norman Claridge as Lord Cruickshank
 * Gilly Grant as Suzy the Slag
 * Gary Hope as Wildman
 * Ronald Leigh-Hunt as Inspector Kert
 * Michael Nightingale as Col. Sullivan
 * A. J. Brown as Joseph Valentine
 * Noel Davis as manager
 * Margery Mason as neighbour
 * Sue Bond as panties girl

Production
The film was shot in various locations around London including the Docklands and Highgate Cemetery, as well as in Paris.

Critical reception
The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "A pathetic attempt to transplant the private eye thriller to the British scene, high on violence and low on style. The hero's attempts to deliver his sub-Chandlerian wisecracks with the weary cynicism of a Philip Marlowe are merely embarrassing, while Lindsay Shonteff's idea of direction seems to be to squeeze in as many massive close-ups of guns, telephones and osculating lips as possible. 'It happens in all the Bogart movies,' says Clegg at one point: the trouble is that there it happens so much better."