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The Cheap Detective (1978) 6.3
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Pepe Damascus
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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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He knows every cheap trick, cheap joke, cheap shot and cheap dame in the book. See more »Parents Guide:
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Country:
USARelease Date:
23 June 1978 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Neil Simon's The Cheap Detective See more »Filming Locations:
Stage 15, Warner Brothers Burbank Studios - 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California, USACompany Credits
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Lou Peckinpaugh: I almost forgot what you looked like. Day by day I erased your face from my mind, little by little, till all I had left... was your right ear and three front teeth on the bottom.
Marlene DuChard: I still carry your picture in my locket. Naturally, I had to cut off your head in case Paul found it.
Lou Peckinpaugh: Suddenly it all seems as though it was yesterday. I stood in that train station, I waited for you for over six hours. Then when ...
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Music by Harry Warren
Lyrics by Johnny Mercer
Sung by Scatman Crothers at Nix Place
Also played when Marlene and Peckinpaugh are drinking champagne
Also played during the closing credits
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This picture was inspired by the box-office success of Neil Simon's Murder by Death which also starred Peter Falk as Sam Diamond, a spoof of Humphrey Bogart' Sam Spade. However, Falk's character in this movie, is still a Bogart parody, it also being a spoof of Bogart's Rick Blaine from Casablanca as well as being an extension of both the Sam Spade character as well as Falk's Columbo TV persona as well. See more »Goofs
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
Marlene DuChard: Did you think my heart didn't stop last night in the club when I saw you standing there?Lou Peckinpaugh: I almost forgot what you looked like. Day by day I erased your face from my mind, little by little, till all I had left... was your right ear and three front teeth on the bottom.
Marlene DuChard: I still carry your picture in my locket. Naturally, I had to cut off your head in case Paul found it.
Lou Peckinpaugh: Suddenly it all seems as though it was yesterday. I stood in that train station, I waited for you for over six hours. Then when ...
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Crazy Credits
The opening credits are written in chalk on a sidewalk, a brick wall, a tambourine, a dock piling, and the back of an overcoat. See more »Soundtracks
"Jeepers Creepers"Music by Harry Warren
Lyrics by Johnny Mercer
Sung by Scatman Crothers at Nix Place
Also played when Marlene and Peckinpaugh are drinking champagne
Also played during the closing credits
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Neil Simon's movies always shine with his marvelous talent. The spoofs of Humphrey Bogart, his movies and other famous people/characters are priceless. My favorite scene in The Cheap Detective is where Eileen Brennen is singing in a cabaret, holding a cigarette out to the detective with her line "Well aren't you going to light my fire?" And he says (paraphrased)"well I was just checking out your kindling". Wonderful script and sharp and funny dialogue. Eileen is beautiful here. Peter Falk is very sexy in the title role. And could anyone ever compare with Madeline Kahn - they threw away the pattern on her. I think Humphrey Bogart would not only laugh at the spoofs of him but also be flattered that his persona has become so classic and so well-known and easily identifiable. There was a wonderful actor in "Dark Shadows" who early in his career did imitations of Bogie and looked a lot like him. He also played Bogie in a movie I believe. I wish there were more movies as good as Neil Simon's.