The Cheap Detective - Region 1 DVD

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Directed by :

Robert Moore

Starring :

Peter Falk

Ann-Margret

Eileen Brennan

Sid Caesar

Stockard Channing

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Description: 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 ... (more)

Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Release date: 13 November 2001
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 9780767828246 UPC: 043396903999

Tags: Mystery (2), Comedy (2), Romance (2), Carmine Caridi (1), Nicol Williamson (1), Marsha Mason (1), John Houseman (1), Louise Fletcher (1), James Coco (1), Fernando Lamas (1), James Cromwell (1), Abe Vigoda (1), Paul Williams (1), Scatman Crothers (1), Columbia Pictures (1), Phil Silvers (1), Sid Caesar (1), Stockard Channing (1), Dom DeLuise (1)

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