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Cheap Detective, The

The Cheap Detective (1978)

Comedy | 92 minutes
2,94 26 votes

Genre: Comedy / Crime

Duration: 92 minuten

Alternative title: Neil Simon's The Cheap Detective

Country: United States

Directed by: Robert Moore

Stars: Peter Falk and Eileen Brennan

IMDb score: 6,5 (6.438)

Releasedate: 23 June 1978

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The Cheap Detective plot

"He knows every cheap trick, cheap joke, cheap shot and cheap dame in the book."

A parody of 'Casablanca' and 'The Maltese Falcon'. Lou Peckinpaugh is a private detective suspected by the police of the murder of his partner. To prove his innocence, he goes in search of the real killer, getting entangled in a search for mysterious and very valuable eggs.

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Peter Falk Peter Falk

Lou Peckinpaugh

Ann-Margret Ann-Margret

Jezebel Dezire

Eileen Brennan Eileen Brennan

Betty DeBoop

Sid Caesar Sid Caesar

Ezra Dezire

Stockard Channing Stockard Channing

Bess

James Coco James Coco

Marcel

Dom DeLuise Dom DeLuise

Pepe Damascus

Louise Fletcher Louise Fletcher

Marlene DuChard

John Houseman John Houseman

Jasper Blubber

Madeline Kahn Madeline Kahn

Mrs. Montenegro

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