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The Cheap Detective (1978)
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San Francisco, 1940, detectives, dames, documents, Nazis, and a treasure. Director:Robert MooreWriter:Neil Simon |
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Cast
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| Peter Falk | ... | ||
| Ann-Margret | ... | ||
| Eileen Brennan | ... | ||
| Sid Caesar | ... |
Ezra Dezire
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| Stockard Channing | ... |
Bess
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| James Coco | ... |
Marcel
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| Dom DeLuise | ... |
Pepe Damascus
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| Louise Fletcher | ... | ||
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John Houseman | ... | |
| Madeline Kahn | ... | ||
| Fernando Lamas | ... | ||
| Marsha Mason | ... | ||
| Phil Silvers | ... |
Hoppy
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| Abe Vigoda | ... |
Sergeant Rizzuto
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| 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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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:
(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, USABox Office
Gross:
$28,221,552 (USA) (1978)Company Credits
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2.35 : 1
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Colonel Schlissel: Caribbean or Virgin?
Betty DeBoop: Well, let's just say I came back a Caribbean.
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Music by Ray Henderson
Played when Peckinpaugh is talking to Damascus at the restaurant See more »
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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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Soundtracks
"Bye Bye Blackbird"Music by Ray Henderson
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