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The Cheap Detective

The Cheap Detective
The Cheap Detective

Theatrical poster
Directed by Robert Moore
Produced by Ray Stark
Margaret Booth
Written by Neil Simon
Starring Peter Falk
Madeline Kahn
Dom DeLuise
Louise Fletcher
Ann-Margret
Eileen Brennan
Stockard Channing
Sid Caesar
Music by Patrick Williams
Cinematography John A. Alonzo
Editing by Sidney Levin
Michael A. Stevenson
Distributed by Columbia Pictures
Release date(s) June 23, 1978
Running time 92 minutes
Country United States
Language English
German
Box office $19,203,000 (Rentals)

The Cheap Detective is a 1978 American satirical comedy film written by Neil Simon and directed by Robert Moore as a follow-up to their successful Murder by Death (Columbia, 1976).

It stars Peter Falk as Lou Peckinpaugh, a detective in the Humphrey Bogart mold, and is an affectionate parody of Bogart movies such as Casablanca and The Maltese Falcon.

An ensemble cast includes Madeline Kahn, Louise Fletcher, Ann-Margret, Eileen Brennan, Stockard Channing, Marsha Mason, Sid Caesar, John Houseman, Dom DeLuise, Abe Vigoda, James Coco, Phil Silvers, Fernando Lamas, Nicol Williamson, Scatman Crothers, and Paul Williams.

Plot

Lou Peckinpaugh (Peter Falk), the Humphrey Bogart-inspired Cheap Detective, has entered a world that is half Casablanca and half Maltese Falcon. A parody of Bogart's films in which Lou goes through a series of scenes from the two films trying to keep ahead of the police, who think he killed his partner, and find the black bird. The film also spoofs Chinatown, A Streetcar Named Desire and To Have and Have Not.

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Categories:

  • American films
  • 1978 films
  • 1970s comedy films
  • 1970s thriller films
  • American comedy films
  • American criminal comedy films
  • American thriller films
  • English-language films
  • Films directed by Robert Moore
  • Criminal comedy films
  • Films set in San Francisco, California
  • Films set in the 1940s
  • Films shot anamorphically
  • Films shot in Metrocolor
  • Parody films
  • Sequel films
  • Columbia Pictures films

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