The Cheap Detective

Name: The Cheap Detective
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Released: 1978-06-23
Duration: 1 h 32 min
Rating: 6.5
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.

The Cheap Detective (1978)

Timing: 1:32 (92 min)

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Video for the film The Cheap Detective — The Cheap Detective (Theatrical Trailer)

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Release date

1978-06-23

Country

United States

Production

Columbia Pictures, EMI Films, Rastar Productions

Genre

Comedy, Crime, Mystery

Budget

$6 000 000

Box office

$28 221 552

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Director

Robert Moore

Actors

Peter Falk, Ann-Margret, Eileen Brennan, Sid Caesar, Stockard Channing, James Coco, Dom DeLuise, Louise Fletcher, John Houseman, Madeline Kahn
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Scenario

Neil Simon

Producer

Ray Stark

Camera operator

John A. Alonzo

Composer

Patrick Williams

Artist

Robert Luthardt

Audition

Jennifer Shull

Editing

Sidney Levin, Michael A. Stevenson
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Short description

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.