The Cheap Detective

Name: The Cheap Detective
Director: Robert Moore
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Released: 1978-06-23
Duration: 92 min
Rating: 6.4
Cast: Peter Falk, Ann-Margret, Eileen Brennan, Sid Caesar, Stockard Channing

He knows every cheap trick, cheap joke, cheap shot and cheap dame in the book.

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64% match1978 • 1h 32m • Comedy, Crime, Mystery

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.

Cast: Peter Falk, Ann-Margret, Eileen Brennan, Sid Caesar, Stockard Channing, James Coco, Dom DeLuise, Louise Fletcher