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Release Date: 1978

Cast: Phil Silvers, John Houseman, Dom DeLuise, Paul Williams, Madeline Kahn, Eileen Brennan, Louise Fletcher, James Cromwell, Fernando Lamas, Sid Caesar, Peter Falk, Nicol Williamson ...MORE

Cast: Phil Silvers, John Houseman, Dom DeLuise, Paul Williams, Madeline Kahn, Eileen Brennan, Louise Fletcher, James Cromwell, Fernando Lamas, Sid Caesar, Peter Falk, Nicol Williamson, Ann-Margret, Marsha Mason, Stockard Channing, Abe Vigoda, James Coco ...LESS

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The Cheap Detective is a 1978 American satirical comedy film written by Neil Simon and directed by Robert Moore as a follow-up to their successful Murder by Death (Columbia, 1976). It stars Peter Falk as Lou Peckinpaugh, a detective in the Humphrey Bogart mold, and is an affectionate parody of Bogart movies such as Casablanca and The Maltese Falcon. An ensemble cast includes Madeline Kahn, Louise Fletcher, Ann-Margret, Eileen Brennan, Stockard Channing, Marsha Mason, Sid Caesar, John Houseman, Dom DeLuise, Abe Vigoda, James Coco, Phil Silvers, Fernando Lamas, Nicol Williamson, Scatman... MORE

The Cheap Detective is a 1978 American satirical comedy film written by Neil Simon and directed by Robert Moore as a follow-up to their successful Murder by Death (Columbia, 1976). It stars Peter Falk as Lou Peckinpaugh, a detective in the Humphrey Bogart mold, and is an affectionate parody of Bogart movies such as Casablanca and The Maltese Falcon. An ensemble cast includes Madeline Kahn, Louise Fletcher, Ann-Margret, Eileen Brennan, Stockard Channing, Marsha Mason, Sid Caesar, John Houseman, Dom DeLuise, Abe Vigoda, James Coco, Phil Silvers, Fernando Lamas, Nicol Williamson, Scatman Crothers, and Paul Williams. Lou Peckinpaugh (Peter Falk), the Humphrey Bogart-inspired Cheap Detective, has entered a world that is half Casablanca and half Maltese Falcon. A parody of Bogart's films in which Lou goes through a series of scenes from the two films trying to keep ahead of the police, who think he killed his partner, and find the black bird. The film also spoofs Chinatown, A Streetcar Named Desire and To Have and Have Not. LESS