The Cheap Detective
– Spoofing the entire 1940s detective genre, and his own performances as a bumbling private detective,..
Spoofing the entire 1940s detective genre, and his own performances as a bumbling private detective, Peter Falk plays Lou Pekinpaugh, a San Francisco private detective accused of murdering his partner at the instigation of his mistress, the partner's wife, Georgia Merkle.
23 Jun 1978
English, German
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Robert Moore
Neil Simon
Peter Falk, Ann-Margret, Eileen Brennan, Sid Caesar
Lou Peckinpaugh, the 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 movies trying to keep ahead of the police who think he killed his partner and find the black bird.
1 nomination.
Columbia Pictures