Cheap Detective, The
Genre: Comedy
Reviewed in Issue 16 of Widescreen Review
Stars: 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
| Studio/Distributor | Columbia/TriStar Home Video |
| Catalog Number | 10816 |
| MPAA Rating | PG |
| Retail Price | $$39.95 |
| Running Time | 92 |
| Color Type | Color |
| Chaptered/Scene Access | Yes |
| Closed Captioned | No |
| Theatrical Release | 1978 |
| LD Release Date | 8/1/95 |
| THX Digitally Mastered | No |
| Director | Robert Moore |
| Screenplay/Written By | Subscribers only |
| Story | Subscribers only |
| Music | Subscribers only |
| Production Designer | Subscribers only |
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| Executive Producers | Subscribers only |
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| Producers | Subscribers only |
| Stars | 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 |
| Theatrical Aspect Ratio | Subscribers only |
| Measured LD Aspect Ratio | Subscribers only |
| Soundtrack | Mono Sound |
| Theatrical Sound | Subscribers only |
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Subscribe FreeNeil Simon’s comedy The Cheap Detective has been likened to a cross between Casablanca and The Maltese Falcon. Peter Falk, doing his best Humphrey Bogart impression, plays the title character detective Lou Peckinpaugh. In the film, Peckinpaugh has to solve five different cases at once and each case has its own damsel-in-distress. Some members of the cast play renowned past actors and Simon borrows plotlines and characters from Humphrey Bogart’s most famous films. The movie is set in 1939 San Francisco. With a large all-star cast of funny people, this one will keep you chuckling until the very end in this who dunnit farce.
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