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The Cheap Detective | Year: 1978 Classification: Comedy Directed: - Robert Moore Actors/Actresses: - Peter Falk - Ann-Margret Buy "The Cheap Detective"--you'll love it! "The Cheap Detective" is a yet another masterpiece penned by Neil Simon who brought you "The Odd Couple" and "California Suite." This film is excellent, starring a wonderful cast consisting of Peter Falk, Madeline Kahn, Dom DeLuise, Fernando Lamos, Eileen Brennen, Ann Margaret, Stockard Channing, James Coco,Louise Flecter, Marsha Mason, and Sid Caeser. "The Cheap Detective" showcases the talent of the late, great Madeline Kahn, in a role which required her to assume a multitude of names. Peter Falk fits the role of a tough-talking P.I. perfectly. Dom DeLuise is just stupid (in the funniest of ways) as a man who wears a horrible smelling cologne to keep his enemies away, and after contact with him suggests "bath in turpentine and you will be fine in the morning." Directed by Roger Moore (Neil Simon's "Murder by Death"), "The Cheap Detective reunites Peter Falk, Eileen Brennen, James Coco and James Cromwell. See it--if you like comedy, you'll love this movie. 'Nice catch Mr Pekinpah, I was almost a widow!' About 70 minutes into the film enters Jezebel Desire (a sex starved Rumanian played to perfection by a very funny Ann-Margret) with her wheelchair bound husband (Sid Caesar), two minutes later, she's trying to push him into a very large open flaming fire, only just being caught by Sam (Peter Falk). Peter Falk is excellent in his role (underplayed and cool) and deals with each crisis as Bogey would have done. All the female characters in The Cheap Detective have soild, yet very funny roles. They definately fair better then their male counterparts - Marsha Mason, Eileen Brennan, Stockard Channing, Louise Fletcher, Madeline Khan and Ann-Margret all play their characters with gusto. There are so many winks and nods to the 40's film noir genre especially The Maltese Falcon, The Big Sleep and Casablanca, now I can't watch one of them without laughing; in fact, whenever I'm watching one of those films I have to turn the film off and put The Cheap Detective on instead! What would you do with six lovely women? Good All-Star cast. Excellent 1940 period piece. This 1978 makes you feel you are in the 1940's. Excellent sets. Not much of a mystery here, but lots of well-written comedic lines. What would you do with six lovely women at the same time? See MURDER BY DEATH (1976). Buy The Cheap Detective at Amazon.com Buy posters at Allposters.com Jamster - the latest ringtones for your phone!  Search with Walhello on the Internet on The Cheap Detective Search with the Priority Search Engine on The Cheap Detective This page in other languages: Suomeksi | Nederlands | Deutsch
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