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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.
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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...
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.”
San Francisco, 1940, detectives, dames, documents, Nazis, and a treasure. Lou Peckinpaugh (Peter Falk), the cheap detective has entered a world that is half Casablanca (1942) and half The Maltese Falcon (1941).
Apr 22, 2003 · Peter Falk as writer Neil Simon’s parody private-eye Lou Peckinpaugh meets second-billed Ann-Margret, as Jezebel Dezire, and Sid Caesar as her less-functional husband Ezra, much talked-about but introduced a full hour into the film, in the Bogart-based.
A spoof of the entire 1940s detective genre. San Francisco private detective, Lou Pekinpaugh is accused of murdering his partner at the instigation of his mistress—his partner's wife.
THE CHEAP DETECTIVE is a hilarious Humphrey Bogart send-up, blending the plots of Casablanca and The Maltese Falcon with the comedic vision of Neil Simon.
The Cheap Detective. Available on Prime Video, Tubi TV. THE CHEAP DETECTIVE is a hilarious Humphrey Bogart send-up, blending the plots of Casablanca and The Maltese Falcon with the comedic vision of Neil Simon.
