The Cheap Detective (1978)

Director
Robert Moore

Main cast
Peter Falk; Ann-Margret; Eileen Brennan; Sid Caesar; Stockard Channing

Genres
Comedy, Thriller, Crime, Mystery

Description
Spoofing the entire 1940s detective genre, and his own performances as a bumbling private detective, Peter Falk plays Lou Pekinpaugh, a San Francisco private detective accused of murdering his partner at the instigation of his mistress, the partner's wife, Georgia Merkle.


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