Movie
The Cheap Detective
Comedy film with a runtime of 92 minutes, released in 1978. Presented in English.
At a Glance
Synopsis
Playwright Neil Simon tries his hand at film parody in The Cheap Detective, sending up the private genre of the 1940s --The Maltese Falcon in particular. Peter Falk is Lou Peckinpaugh, a trenchcoated nincompoop with a Humphrey Bogart accent, who finds himself accused of killing his partner, with whose wife Georgia Merkle (Marsha Mason) he has been having an affair. Amidst this confusion, the sultry Mrs. Montenegro (Madeline Khan) stumbles into Lou's office. She is searching for an ancient treasure --a dozen diamond eggs. Soon Lou finds himself having to deal with a collection of unsavory characters --Jasper Blubber (John Houseman), "The Boy" (Paul Williams), Pepe Damascus (Dom DeLuise)-- who are also looking for the diamond eggs.
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Cast
- Peter Falk
- Ann-Margret
- Eileen Brennan
- Sid Caesar
- Stockard Channing
- James Coco
- Dom DeLuise
- Louise Fletcher
- John Houseman
- Madeline Kahn
- Fernando Lamas
- Marsha Mason
- Phil Silvers
- Abe Vigoda
- Paul Williams
- Nicol Williamson
- Emory Bass
- Carmine Caridi
- James Cromwell
- Scatman Crothers
- David Ogden Stiers
- Vic Tayback
- Carole Wells
- John Calvin
- Barry Michlin
- Richard Narita
- Jonathan Banks
- Lew Gallo
- Lee McLaughlin
- Zale Kessler
- Jerrold Ziman
- Wally Berns
- Bella Bruck
- Henry Sutton
- Maurice Marks
- Joe Ross
- Dean Perry
- Joe E. Ross
- George Rondo
- Ronald L. Schwary
- Louis H. Kelly
- Charles Bastin
- Charles A. Bastin
- Armando Gonzales
- Gary L. Dyer
- Steven Fisher
- Laurie Hagen
- Wally K. Berns
- Lee Menning
- Nancy Warren
- Nancy Marlowe Coyne
- Lynn Griffis
- Paula Friel
- Sheila Sisco
- Lauren Simon
- Cindy Lang
- Tina Ritt
- David Matthau
- Gary Alexander
- Michele Bernath
- George Simmons
- Joree Sirianni
- Cornell Chulay
- William McCaughey
- Neil Simon
- Margaret Booth
- Sidney Levin
- Robert Luthardt
- Theoni V. Aldredge
- Augie Lohman
- Charles Schram
- Phillip Bennett
- John A. Anderson
- Michael A. Stevenson
- John A. Alonzo
- Agnes Henry
- Al Overton Jr.
