The Cheap Detective

The Cheap Detective
by Robert Moore

The Cheap Detective
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Actor: Ann-Margret, Eileen Brennan, Peter Falk, Sid Caesar, Stockard Channing
Director: Robert Moore
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: Chinese (Subtitled); English (Subtitled); Korean (Subtitled); Portuguese (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language); German (Original Language); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 92 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-11-13
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Sony Pictures

Movie Reviews of The Cheap Detective

Movie Review: Cheap . . .
Summary: 5 Stars

My family and I love this movie - no, wait. Sorry. What we actually love most about this movie is Peter Falk.

Summary of The Cheap Detective

Most fans of everything-but-the-kitchen-sink comedies like The Naked Gun and Hot Shots probably think the genre started with Airplane!, but Neil Simon's The Cheap Detective came two years earlier. It's a camp parody of Humphrey Bogart's 1940s detective flicks (particularly The Maltese Falcon and The Big Sleep), with a big dose of Casablanca thrown in for good measure. There's no point in describing the plot--it's little more than a series of cameos by just about every actor working in the 1970s, including Ann-Margaret, Eileen Brennan, Stockard Channing, James Coco, Scatman Crothers, Dom DeLuise, John Houseman, Marsha Mason, and Nicol Williamson. Peter Falk plays the detective and does a fine Bogey impression. Unfortunately, it's not Neil Simon's best work--he's better at character comedy such as The Odd Couple and The Goodbye Girl than this kind of slapstick--but there are a few good lines and the cast gives it their best. Louise Fletcher, not usually known for comedy, does a sharp satire of Ingrid Bergman in Casablanca, and Madeline Kahn never fails to entertain in a variety of disguises. --Bret Fetzer

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