The Cheap Detective

(1978)

★ 6.3 IMDb · 109 votes

Genres: Comedy, Crime, Mystery

Year: 1978

Runtime: 92 мин

Country: United States of America

Director: Robert Moore

Cast: Питер Фальк, Энн-Маргрет, Айлин Бреннан, Sid Caesar, Стокард Чэннинг, Джеймс Коко, Dom DeLuise, Луиза Флетчер, John Houseman, Мэдлин Кан

Plot

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.

Lou Peckinpaugh (Peter Falk), the cheap detective has entered a world that is half Casablanca (1942) and half The Maltese Falcon (1941). A parody of Humphrey Bogart's movies in which Lou goes through a series of scenes from the two movies trying to keep ahead of the police who think he killed his partner and find the black bird.