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The Cheap Detective

(1978)

June 23, 1978• 1h 32m
64%
TMDB Score

Overview

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.

Robert Moore

Director

Top Billed Cast

PF

Peter Falk

Lou Peckinpaugh

A

Ann-Margret

Jezebel Dezire

EB

Eileen Brennan

Betty DeBoop

SC

Sid Caesar

Ezra Dezire

SC

Stockard Channing

Bess

JC

James Coco

Marcel

DD

Dom DeLuise

Pepe Damascus

LF

Louise Fletcher

Marlene DuChard

JH

John Houseman

Jasper Blubber

MK

Madeline Kahn

Mrs. Montenegro

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