Movie #531 "Cheap Detective" was just okay --- it's a parody of Bogart films , including "Casablanca," "Maltese Falcon" and "Big Sleep" but it moves kind of slow, and because it has just one guy (Falk) moving from one girl to the next (or they move to him scene after scene), it gets a little repetitive. One crowning moment of glory, I think, here is when Neil Simon (writer) changes the ending of "Casablanca" to the ending the audience would probably most want to see, BUT it becomes glaringly obvious that after we see it, we really don't like it. I DID enjoy that scene, but the rest seemed just okay, and not as funny as I thought it would be, since it is penned by Neil Simon.
You rated this movie: 3 out of 5 stars
The Cheap Detective
Neil Simon's The Cheap Detective
(1978) PG
With the requisite abundance of plot twists and creepy characters, playwright Neil Simon skewers film noir in a parody that combines scenes from Casablanca and The Maltese Falcon. Lou Peckinpaugh (Peter Falk), a private dick implicated in the murder of his partner, hunts down missing diamond eggs at the behest of Mrs. Montenegro (Madeline Kahn). Meanwhile, memorable cameos abound from Ann-Margret, Scatman Crothers and Abe Vigoda.
Genre:Comedies, Thrillers, Satires, Crime Thrillers, Mysteries
This movie is:Goofy, Suspenseful
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