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The Cheap Detective Director: Robert Moore Cast: Peter Falk, Ann-Margret, Eileen Brennan, Sid Caesar

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  • DVD Release Date: 11/13/2001
  • Original Release: 1978
  • Rating: Rated PG
  • Sales Rank: 2,560
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Digitally mastered audio & anamorphic video; Widescreen and full-screen presentations; Audio: English [mono], Spanish; Subtitles: English, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Korean, Thai; Exclusive featurette: "A Conversation With Neil Simon"; Talent files; Interactive menus; Production notes; Scene selections

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Side #1 -- Widescreen
0. Scene Selections
1. Start [3:26]
2. Four Bodies + Two [2:33]
3. Lou Peckinpaugh [1:51]
4. At Lou's Office [5:10]
5. Unwelcome Guests [5:52]
6. Betty DeBoop [2:45]
7. Colonel Schlissel [1:20]
8. Pepe Damascus [2:47]
9. Paul & Marlene DuChard [1:55]
10. Black Fox & Friends [1:49]
11. Marlene, Thiker & Lou [1:54]
12. "Paris Has Fallen!" [1:47]
13. The Documents Are Taken [3:00]
14. Marcel & Paul Stop By [4:01]
15. "I Am Jasper Blubber." [4:03]
16. Miss DeVega [2:24]
17. A Break-in at Lou's [10:54]
18. The Widow Merkle [6:46]
19. Jezebel & Ezra Dezire [4:58]
20. Closure [3:04]
21. Back at the Office [3:34]
22. Blubber's Hotel Room [3:13]
23. Chicks [3:16]
24. The Oakland Ferry [1:26]
25. The Rate of Exchange [2:43]
26. Taking Care of Schlissel [:51]
27. Case Solved [2:01]
28. Meeting the Girls [2:31]
Side #2 -- Full Screen
0. Scene Selections
1. Start [3:26]
2. Four Bodies + Two [2:33]
3. Lou Peckinpaugh [1:51]
4. At Lou's Office [5:10]
5. Unwelcome Guests [5:52]
6. Betty DeBoop [2:45]
7. Colonel Schlissel [1:20]
8. Pepe Damascus [2:47]
9. Paul & Marlene DuChard [1:55]
10. Black Fox & Friends [1:49]
11. Marlene, Thiker & Lou [1:54]
12. "Paris Has Fallen!" [1:47]
13. The Documents Are Taken [3:00]
14. Marcel & Paul Stop By [4:01]
15. "I Am Jasper Blubber." [4:03]
16. Miss DeVega [2:24]
17. A Break-in at Lou's [10:54]
18. The Widow Merkle [6:46]
19. Jezebel & Ezra Dezire [4:58]
20. Closure [3:04]
21. Back at the Office [3:34]
22. Blubber's Hotel Room [3:13]
23. Chicks [3:16]
24. The Oakland Ferry [1:26]
25. The Rate of Exchange [2:43]
26. Taking Care of Schlissel [:51]
27. Case Solved [2:01]
28. Meeting the Girls [2:31]

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Editorial Reviews

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 (Marsha Mason). Police Lieutenant DiMaggio (Vic Tayback) has his eye on Lou and blunders around in a way which complicates Lou's efforts to clear his name. Lou gets a new client when Mrs. Montenegro (Madeline Kahn) and her cronies (John Housman, Paul Williams and Dom DeLuise) hire him to search out a dozen diamond eggs. Marlene DuChard (Louise Fletcher) also comes to him for help of a complicated nature. In this madcap comedy written by Neil Simon, obstacles and complications appear every few minutes, and a great many famous actors show up in hilarious cameos. Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide

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February 14, 2004: My mind blends this movie and The Maltese Falcon so closely that I find Madelyn Kahn's role and Mary Astor's as inextricable, Peter Falk is Rick and Sam, Louise Fletcher's idealism and Fernando Lamas' Two Star French Restaurant in Oakland and 'the papers, darling' fit the setting and story so well, Tinker plays the song, the fog drifts and the fog horns sound, while John Houseman and Dom DeLuise conspire...I just say play it again, Neil.

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May 23, 2002: I didn't know much about this movie until I discovered it was from the same people who brought us another hilarious comedy, Murder By Death! I bought the DVD solely on that merit, and I was not disappointed! The movie was cleverly written by Neil Simon, and I laughed throughout the movie! While the movie is wonderfully silly, it does not rely on the slapstick (and unfunny) kind of humor you would find in the Naked Gun movies with Leslie Nielsen. You will not be disappointed with this movie!