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Roger Ebert June 23, 1978. Tweet. Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. 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 .”. Populate the cast with as many ...
53% Tomatometer 17 Reviews 57% Audience Score 1,000+ Ratings In this satire of film noir, Lou Peckinpaugh (Peter Falk) is a San Francisco detective in the boozy, wise-cracking tradition of ...
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- Robert Moore
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- Peter Falk
User Reviews. "No sense crying over spilt husbands." Legendary writer Neil Simons' delightful parody of hard boiled detective fiction (by the likes of Hammett and Chandler) is often quite funny. It does a good job of combining Simons' genuinely funny and witty dialogue with some occasional good visual gags.
The Cheap Detective Reviews. All Critics. Top Critics. All Audience. Verified Audience. Matt Brunson Film Frenzy. The hit-to-miss ratio is acceptable enough to give this a hearty...
Film critic Roger Ebert stated that "If you loved The Maltese Falcon and can recite all the best lines from Casablanca by heart, you'll hate 'The Cheap Detective', which is basically just the year's classiest and most expensive rip-off." A number of critics gave the film very positive reviews: The Fresno Bee noted that "Neil Simon has done it ...
- $5-6 million
- Patrick Williams
- June 23, 1978
IMDb RATING. 6.4 /10. 5.7K. YOUR RATING. Rate. Play trailer 3:02. 2 Videos. 31 Photos. Comedy Crime Mystery. San Francisco, 1940, detectives, dames, documents, Nazis, and a treasure. Director. Robert Moore. Writer. Neil Simon. Stars. Peter Falk. Ann-Margret. Eileen Brennan. See production info at IMDbPro. 92 User reviews. 14 Critic reviews. Awards.
Jan 1, 1978 · Reviews. Dec 31, 1977 11:00pm PT. The Cheap Detective, which might also be called Son of Casablanca, is a hilarious and loving takeoff on all 1940s Warner Bros private eye and foreign...
