The Cheap Detective
by Robert Moore
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Actor: Ann-Margret, Eileen Brennan, Peter Falk, Sid Caesar, Stockard ChanningDirector: Robert Moore
Brand: Sony
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Original Language); German (Original Language); Chinese (Subtitled); English (Subtitled); Korean (Subtitled); Portuguese (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); 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: The Cheap Review!!
Summary: 5 Stars
Great Cast, great script, great laughs - I waited years for this to come out on DVD, one of my fave films ever!! If you love Bogart movies Casablanca, The Big Sleep and the Maltese Falcon and also like to laugh then you'll love this.
Summary of The Cheap Detective
Lou peckinpaugh the worldly cynical gumshoe who takes on thugs crooks nazis femme fatales and the golden gate bridge in this terrific tribute to bogie and the hammett/chandler school of hard-boiled detectives. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 06/28/2005 Starring: Peter Falk Eileen Brennan Run time: 92 minutes Rating: PgMost 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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