Top ten gumshoes

Mickey Rourke as Harry Angel in ‘Angel Heart’

Humphrey Bogart as Philip Marlowe in ‘The Big Sleep’

Jack Nicholson as J.J. Gittes in ‘Chinatown’


Steve Martin as Rigby Reardon in ‘Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid’


Ralph Meeker as Mike Hammer in ‘Kiss Me Deadly’

Elliott Gould as Philip Marlowe in ‘The Long Goodbye’

Humphrey Bogart as Sam Spade in ‘The Maltese Falcon’

Gene Hackman as Harry Moseby in ‘Night Moves’

Bob Hoskins as Eddie Valiant in ‘Who Framed Roger Rabbit?’

Bill Pullman as Daryl Zero in ‘Zero Effect’