| The Cheap Detective | |||||
| Columbia TriStar (1970) | |||||
| Comedy, Crime | |||||
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| 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 |
| Director | Robert Moore
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| Producer | Ray Stark
Margaret Booth |
| Writer | Neil Simon
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| Cinematography | John A. Alonzo
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| Musician | Patrick Williams
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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. |
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