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The Cheap Detective (23-Jun-1978)

Director: Robert Moore

Writer: Neil Simon

Keywords: Mystery, Comedy, Nazis

Private detective Lou Peckinpaugh's partner is murdered, and the police think him responsible. Quite understandable, as Peckinpaugh was having an affair with the wife. Set in Nazi-occupied San Francisco. Send-up of Humphrey Bogart films most notably Casablanca and The Maltese Falcon (1941), extending Peter Falk's character from Neil Simon's earlier Murder by Death (1976).

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Ann-Margret
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Jonathan Banks
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Eileen Brennan
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James Coco
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James Cromwell
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Scatman Crothers
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Dom DeLuise
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Peter Falk
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16-Sep-1927 23-Jun-2011 Detective Columbo
Louise Fletcher
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John Houseman
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Madeline Kahn
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29-Sep-1942 3-Dec-1999 Paper Moon and Blazing Saddles
Fernando Lamas
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Marsha Mason
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Phil Silvers
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David Ogden Stiers
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Vic Tayback
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6-Jan-1930 25-May-1990 Character actor, Papillon, etc
Abe Vigoda
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24-Feb-1921 26-Jan-2016 Fish on Barney Miller
Paul Williams
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Nicol Williamson
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