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Cheap Detective
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by Sony Pictures
Sales Rank: 15190
Price: $9.98
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Most fans of everything-but-the-kitchen-sink comedies like <I>The Naked Gun</I> and <I>Hot Shots</I> probably think the genre started with <I>Airplane!</I>, but Neil Simon's <I>The Cheap Detective</I> came two years earlier. It's a camp parody of Humphrey Bogart's 1940s detective flicks (particularly <I>The Maltese Falcon</I> and <I>The Big Sleep</I>), with a big dose of <I>Casablanca</I> thrown in for good measure. There's no point in describing the plot--it's little more than a series of cameos by just about every actor working in the 1970s, including Ann-Margaret, Eileen Brennan, Stockard Channing, James Coco, Scatman Crothers, Dom DeLuise, John Houseman, Marsha Mason, and Nicol Williamson. Peter Falk plays the detective and does a fine Bogey impression. Unfortunately, it's not Neil Simon's best work--he's better at character comedy such as <I>The Odd Couple</I> and <I>The Goodbye Girl</I> than this kind of slapstick--but there are a few good lines and the cast gives it their best. Louise Fletcher, not usually known for comedy, does a sharp satire of Ingrid Bergman in <I>Casablanca</I>, and Madeline Kahn never fails to entertain in a variety of disguises. <I>--Bret Fetzer</I>
Viewer Reviews
Great Cast, great script, great laughs - I waited years for this to come out on DVD, one of my fave films ever!! If you love Bogart movies Casablanca, The Big Sleep and the Maltese Falcon and also like to laugh then you'll love this.
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