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The Cheap Detective

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

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.

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Info about The Cheap Detective

Studio(s): Columbia Pictures, EMI Films

Originally Released: United States, Jun 23, 1978

Production Country: United States

Budget: $6,000,000.00

Genres:Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Romance, Thriller

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