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Lou Peckinpaugh (Peter Falk), a bumbling San Francisco private detective, tries to prove himself innocent of his partner's murder while helping a bizarre array of characters recover a lost treasure.
Jun 23, 1978 · The Cheap Detective: Directed by Robert Moore. With Peter Falk, Ann-Margret, Eileen Brennan, Sid Caesar. San Francisco, 1940, detectives, dames, documents, Nazis, and a treasure.
Neil Simon's “The Cheap Detective” begins with an interesting, if hardly original, premise: Have Peter Falk do his Humphrey Bogart imitation, and plug him into a simultaneous satire of “Casablanca” and “The Maltese Falcon.”
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The Cheap Detective is a 1978 American mystery comedy film written by Neil Simon and directed by Robert Moore.
In this satire of film noir, Lou Peckinpaugh (Peter Falk) is a San Francisco detective in the boozy, wise-cracking tradition of Humphrey Bogart in "The Maltese Falcon." A suspect in the murder of...
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Drawing upon the lifelong affection that he held for Humphrey Bogart, Simon stitched together plot elements from Bogey's signature vehicles into the engaging crazy-quilt homage The Cheap Detective (1978).