The Cheap Detective [1978 film]

by Robert Moore (Director), Neil Simon (Screenwriter)

Other authors: Ann-Margret (Actor), Jonathan Banks (Actor), Eileen Brennan (Actor), Sid Caesar (Actor), Stockard Channing (Actor) — 15 more, James Coco (Actor), James Cromwell (Actor), Scatman Crothers (Actor), Dom DeLuise (Actor), Peter Falk (Actor), Louise Fletcher (Actor), John Houseman (Actor), Madeline Kahn (Actor), Fernando Lamas, Marsha Mason (Actor), Phil Silvers, David Ogden Stiers (Actor), Abe Vigoda (Actor), Paul Williams (Actor), Nicol Williamson (Actor)

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Peter Falk plays a worldly, cynical gumshoe who takes on San Francisco, thugs, crooks, Nazis, femme fatales and the Golden Gate Bridge in this tribute to Bogie and the Hammett/Chandler school of hard-boiled detectives.

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Cast of familiar faces, led by Peter Falk, makes the really stupid script bearable. Not Simon's best by a long shot, but Falk is always watchable. John Houseman makes a poor Sidney Greenstreet, however. (

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Author name	Role	Type of author	Work?	Status
Moore, Robert	Director	primary author	all editions	confirmed
Simon, Neil	Screenwriter	main author	all editions	confirmed
Ann-Margret	Actor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Banks, Jonathan	Actor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Brennan, Eileen	Actor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Caesar, Sid	Actor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Channing, Stockard	Actor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Coco, James	Actor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Cromwell, James	Actor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Crothers, Scatman	Actor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
DeLuise, Dom	Actor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Falk, Peter	Actor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Fletcher, Louise	Actor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Houseman, John	Actor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Kahn, Madeline	Actor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Lamas, Fernando	—	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Mason, Marsha	Actor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Silvers, Phil	—	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Stiers, David Ogden	Actor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Vigoda, Abe	Actor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Williams, Paul	Actor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Williamson, Nicol	Actor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed

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Peter Falk plays a worldly, cynical gumshoe who takes on San Francisco, thugs, crooks, Nazis, femme fatales and the Golden Gate Bridge in this tribute to Bogie and the Hammett/Chandler school of hard-boiled detectives.

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