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The Cheap Detective

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

1978 · PG · 1h 32m

Directed by Robert Moore

6.4

TMDB audience score
113 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

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.

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Cast

  • Peter Falk
    Lou Peckinpaugh

  • Ann-Margret
    Jezebel Dezire

  • Eileen Brennan
    Betty DeBoop

  • Sid Caesar
    Ezra Dezire

  • Stockard Channing
    Bess

  • James Coco
    Marcel

  • Dom DeLuise
    Pepe Damascus

  • Louise Fletcher
    Marlene DuChard

  • John Houseman
    Jasper Blubber

  • Madeline Kahn
    Mrs. Montenegro

  • Fernando Lamas
    Paul DuChard

  • Marsha Mason
    Georgia Merkle

  • Phil Silvers
    Hoppy

  • Abe Vigoda
    Sergeant Rizzuto

  • Paul Williams
    Boy

  • Nicol Williamson
    Colonel Schlissel

  • Emory Bass
    Butler

  • Carmine Caridi
    Sergeant Crosseti