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The CheapDetective

on BBC Two England

The detective double bill concludes with Neil
Simon's comic parody of Casablanca and The Maltese
Falcon, starring Peter Falk Ann-Margret
San Francisco 1939. When bumbling private detective Lou Peckinpaugh 's partner ends up dead, the investigator's romantic involvement with the dead man's wife makes him the prime suspect - unless he can find the real culprit first.
Director Robert Moore (1978)
♦ See Films: pages 54-66 ***
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Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Falk
Unknown:
Lou Peckinpaugh
Director:
Robert Moore
Lou Peckinpaugh:
Peter Falk
Jezebel Dezire:
Ann-Margret
Betty DeBoop:
Eileen Brennan
Ezra Dezire:
Sid Caesar
Bess:
Stockard Channing
Marcel:
James Coco
Pepe Damascus:
Dom Deluise
MarleneDuChard:
Louise Fletcher
Jasper Blubber:
John Houseman
Mrs Montenegro:
Madeline Kahn
Hoppy, cab driver:
Phil Silvers

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