The Cheap Detective

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The Cheap Detective
Directed by Robert Moore
Produced by Ray Stark
Margaret Booth
Written by Neil Simon
Starring Peter Falk
Madeline Kahn
Louise Fletcher
Ann-Margret
Eileen Brennan
Stockard Channing
Sid Caesar
Music by Patrick Williams
Cinematography John A. Alonzo
Editing by Sidney Levin
Michael A. Stevenson
Distributed by Columbia Pictures
Release date(s) June 23, 1978
Running time 92 min.
Country United States U.S.A.
Language English/German

The Cheap Detective is a 1978 Columbia Pictures spoof 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 mould, and is an affectionate parody of Bogart movies such as Casablanca and The Maltese Falcon. The 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.

Stockard Channing and Sid Caesar would star in Grease that same year. Fernando Lamas's son, Lorenzo Lamas would too.

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