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The Cheap Detective
Year:
Duration:
92 min
Genres:
Comedy | Crime | Mystery | Romance | Thriller
IMDB rate:
6.5
Director:
Robert Moore
Details
Country: USA
Release Date: 1978-06-23
Filming Locations: Stage 15, Warner Brothers Burbank Studios - 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California, USA
Earnings
Gross: $28,221,552 (USA) ( 1978)
Cast
Actor
Character
Ann-Margret
Ann-Margret
The Cheap Detective
Peter Falk
Lou Peckinpaugh
Eileen Brennan
Betty DeBoop
Sid Caesar
Ezra Dezire
Stockard Channing
Bess
James Coco
Marcel
Dom DeLuise
Pepe Damascus
Louise Fletcher
Marlene DuChard
John Houseman
Jasper Blubber
Madeline Kahn
Mrs. Montenegro
Fernando Lamas
Paul DuChard
Marsha Mason
Georgia Merkle
Phil Silvers
Hoppy
Abe Vigoda
Sgt. Rizzuto
Paul Williams
Boy
Nicol Williamson
Colonel Schlissel
Emory Bass
Butler
Carmine Caridi
Sgt. Crosseti
James Cromwell
Schnell
Scatman Crothers
Tinker
David Ogden Stiers
Captain
Vic Tayback
Lt. DiMaggio
Carole Wells
Hat Check Girl
John Calvin
Qvicker
Barry Michlin
Bandleader
Jonathan Banks
Cabbie
Lew Gallo
Cop
Lee McLaughlin
Fat man
Zale Kessler
Courier
Jerrold Ziman
Courier (as Jerry Ziman)
Wally K. Berns
Floyd Merkle (as Wally Berns)
Bella Bruck
Scrub Woman
Henry Sutton
Desk Clerk
Maurice Marks
Doorman
Joe Ross
Michel
Dean Perry
Cab Driver
George Rondo
Cab Driver
Ronald L. Schwary
Cab Driver
Louis H. Kelly
Croupier #1
Charles Bastin
Croupier #2 (as Charles A. Bastin)
Armando Gonzales
Bartender
Gary L. Dyer
Man in Crusades Bar
Steven Fisher
Man in Crusades Bar
Laurie Hagen
Elegant Lady
Lee Menning
Elegant Lady
Nancy Warren
Elegant Lady
Nancy Marlowe Coyne
Lady of the Night
Lynn Griffis
Lady of the Night
Paula Friel
Military Wife
Sheila Sisco
Military Wife
Lauren Simon
Military Wife
Cindy Lang
Navy Wife
Martina Ritt
Army Wife (as Tina Ritt)
David Matthau
Military Man
Gary Alexander
Dancer
Michele Bernath
Dancer
George F. Simmons
Reporter
Joree Sirianni
Cigarette Girl
Cornell Chulay
German Singer
Arthur Tovey
Old Husband (uncredited)
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Trivia
The movie was titled 'The Cheap Detective', according to writer 'Neil Simon', "Because the detective in those old films never got paid! Who paid Humphrey Bogart for finding all those crooks in The Maltese Falcon (1941)? He arrested Mary Astor and sent her and everyone else to gaol. Who paid him?... The character is always involved in danger not for the bucks but because it's his lifestyle".
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'Sam Diamond' is a combination of Dashiell Hammett's character, 'Sam Spade', and "Richard Diamond', played by Dick Powell on radio and TV.
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Writer Neil Simon remained on the set to take care of re-writes, as he had done with this picture's predecessor, Murder by Death (1976).
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Goofs
The movie takes place in 1939, yet the song sung in the nightclub is 'La Vie En Rose' which was not written until 1946.
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When Lou and Marlene are talking in his apartment, her scarf keeps changing position from surrounding her face to trailing down the back of her head.
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Quotes
Lou Peckinpaugh: You said on the phone last night, sir, that you thought that I could be of some service to you.
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Marcel: Gentlemen, may I present Miss Betty DeBoop from the Islands?
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Lou Peckinpaugh: I'm using rented bullets for my gun. We all got problems.
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