- Comedy, Crime, Mystery
- 92 min
- PG
Rotten Tomatoes53%IMDb6.4
He knows every cheap trick, cheap joke, cheap shot and cheap dame in the book.
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.
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Ironic, comic, unpretentious and cool.
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- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- cooloverwhelming
- contemporarynostalgic
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Cast
- Peter FalkLou Peckinpaugh
- Ann-MargretJezebel Dezire
- Eileen BrennanBetty DeBoop
- Sid CaesarEzra Dezire
- Stockard ChanningBess
- James CocoMarcel
- Dom DeLuisePepe Damascus
- Louise FletcherMarlene DuChard
- John HousemanJasper Blubber
- Madeline KahnMrs. Montenegro
Crew
- Robert MooreDirector
- Neil SimonWriter
- John A. AlonzoDirector of Photography
- Patrick WilliamsOriginal Music Composer
- Sidney LevinEditor
- Michael A. StevensonEditor
- Ray StarkProducer
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