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The Cheap Detective (1978)

PG 92 min  -  Comedy | Crime | Mystery  -   23 June 1978 (USA)
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San Francisco, 1940, detectives, dames, documents, Nazis, and a treasure.

Director:

Robert Moore

Writer:

Neil Simon
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Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Peter Falk ...
Ann-Margret ...
Eileen Brennan ...
Sid Caesar ...
Ezra Dezire
Stockard Channing ...
Bess
James Coco ...
Marcel
Dom DeLuise ...
Pepe Damascus
Louise Fletcher ...
John Houseman John Houseman ...
Madeline Kahn ...
Fernando Lamas ...
Marsha Mason ...
Phil Silvers ...
Hoppy
Abe Vigoda ...
Sergeant Rizzuto
Paul Williams ...
Boy
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Storyline

Lou Peckinpaugh, the 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 movies trying to keep ahead of the police who think he killed his partner and find the black bird. Written by John Vogel <jlvogel@comcast.net>  

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Taglines:

He knows every cheap trick, cheap joke, cheap shot and cheap dame in the book. See more »

Genres:

Comedy | Crime | Mystery | Romance | Thriller

Parents Guide:

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Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English | German

Release Date:

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Also Known As:

Neil Simon's The Cheap Detective See more »

Box Office

Gross:

$28,221,552 (USA) (1978)
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Technical Specs

Runtime:

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color (Metrocolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1
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Did You Know?

Trivia

Neil Simon claimed that Warner Bros. had saved light fixtures and decorations from Humphrey Bogart's club in Casablanca, allowing them to be reused as props in this movie's club, Nix Place. He also claimed some of the original waiters were reused as well. See more »

Goofs

Continuity: When Lou and Marlene are talking in his apartment, her scarf keeps changing position from surrounding her face to trailing down the back of her head. See more »

Quotes

Marcel: Gentlemen, may I present Miss Betty DeBoop from the Islands?
Colonel Schlissel: Caribbean or Virgin?
Betty DeBoop: Well, let's just say I came back a Caribbean.
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Connections

Referenced in That Lucky Stiff (1980) See more »

Soundtracks

"Bye Bye Blackbird"
Music by Ray Henderson
Played when Peckinpaugh is talking to Damascus at the restaurant See more »