A grumpy semi-retired private investigator partners with a quirky female client to catch the people who murdered his partner.
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| Complete credited cast: | |||
| Art Carney | ... | Ira Wells | |
| Lily Tomlin | ... | Margo Sterling | |
| Bill Macy | ... | Charlie Hatter | |
| Eugene Roche | ... | Ron Birdwell | |
| Joanna Cassidy | ... | Laura Birdwell | |
| John Considine | ... | Jeff Lamar | |
| Ruth Nelson | ... | Mrs. Schmidt | |
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John Davey | ... | Sergeant Dayton |
| Howard Duff | ... | Harry Regan | |
| Rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
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Ira Wells is an aged retired Los Angeles, California based private investigator comes out of retirement when a former partner, Harry Regan, shows up on his doorstep with a bullet wound to the gut, and dies. Ira wants to find out who killed Harry. Ira is contacted by another long-time acquaintance, Charlie Hatter, a self-proclaimed loser and Hollywood hack, about Harry's last case. Harry's client was Margo Sterling, a former client of Charlie's who is a flaky penniless new-age actress, agent, and dress maker. She hired Harry to retrieve her missing cat, Winston, who is still being held ransom by an acquaintance named Brian Hemphill, who stole Winston because Margo "borrowed" money. With all this, Ira has to figure out what would be the reason for someone to kill Harry. Written by Huggo
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Lyrics by Stephen Lehner
Music by Kenneth Wannberg (as Ken Wannberg)
Sung by Bev Kelly
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As stated by film critic Leonard Maltin, the later brief American television series Eye to Eye (1985) was a spin-off from this film. See more »Goofs
Margo complains, after tasting her drink, that it is Pepsi, not the Coke she ordered. She then pours more from the initially out of shot Pepsi can. She would have known it was Pepsi from the can, either when Charlie poured the drink or when he put the can on the bar top. See more »Connections
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