Overview - The Cheap Detective

Date of release

Genres

  • Comedy
  • Crime
  • Mystery

Runtime: 92 minutes

Homepage: The Cheap Detective

Budget

Budget data not disclosed

Revenue

Revenue data not disclosed

Spoken Languages

  • English
  • Deutsch

Production companies

  • Name: Columbia Pictures

    Production country United States of America

  • Name: EMI Films

    Production country

  • Name: Rastar Productions

    Production country United States of America

Overview

A spoof of the entire 1940s detective genre. San Francisco private detective, Lou Pekinpaugh is accused of murdering his partner at the instigation of his mistress—his partner's wife.

Cast

  • Name: Peter Falk

    Character: Lou Peckinpaugh

    Popularity: 3.169

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  • Name: Ann-Margret

    Character: Jezebel Dezire

    Popularity: 2.0553

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  • Name: Eileen Brennan

    Character: Betty DeBoop

    Popularity: 0.8756

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  • Name: Sid Caesar

    Character: Ezra Dezire

    Popularity: 0.291

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  • Name: Stockard Channing

    Character: Bess

    Popularity: 1.4477

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  • Name: James Coco

    Character: Marcel

    Popularity: 0.4446

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  • Name: Dom DeLuise

    Character: Pepe Damascus

    Popularity: 0.9701

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  • Name: Louise Fletcher

    Character: Marlene DuChard

    Popularity: 1.2754

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