Umney’s Last Case
William H. Macy plays dual roles in this imaginative tale about an author who copes with a family tragedy by writing himself into the noirish dramas of his own novel, where he interacts with his main character, a hard-boiled investigator in 1938 Los Angeles. Gloria/Linda Landry: Jacqueline McKenzie. Ardis McGill: Melinda Butel., Star-studded scares and shocks starring William H Macy a 1930s fictional private eye who trades lives with his crime-fiction author in 1994., William H Macy stars as Sam Landry, a writer of hard-boiled detective fiction. When his son dies, Landry is desperate to live another life, so he writes himself into his own book and forces his lead character, Umney (also played by Macy), a 1930s detective, to switch places with him. But Landry’s problems are only beginning when he realises Umney is trapped in the present day.
