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.
The Cheap Detective
San Francisco, 1940, detectives, dames, documents, Nazis, and a treasure.