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Summary: Hilarious Spoof of "Casablanca" and Bogey!
Review: Like Mel Brooks' "Young Frankenstein," "The Cheap Detective" is a lovingly hilarious homage to the great classics of the 30's and 40's. Falk, Fletcher, Kahn, Williams, Channing, and Brennan are outstanding.Houseman's and DeLuise's dead-on impersonations of legends Sidney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre are brilliant! And one can only marvel at Ann-Margret's "baubles!"
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Summary: The Cheap Detective
Review: This is a truly excellent film. It was written by Neil Simon and directed by Robert Moore. This movie parodys old gangster films and other movies like Casablanca, The Maltese Falcon, and more. Even if you haven't seen those classics, it still supplies a ton of laughs. If you like this film, definately check out my favorite movie of all-time, Murder by Death.
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Summary: The Cheap Detective
Review: This is a truly excellent film. It was written by Neil Simon and directed by Robert Moore. This movie parodys old gangster films and other movies like Casablanca, The Maltese Falcon, and more. Even if you haven't seen those classics, it still supplies a ton of laughs. If you like this film, definately check out my favorite movie of all-time, Murder by Death.
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Summary: One Gin Sling!!!
Review: Watch it, for movie fans this is a very funny film. Peter Falk has lines like : Dont call me sweetheart with a dead husband and the police still here" I agree, Paul Williams kicking his own butt is hilarious. Madeline Kahn is funny even though it seems she is making up her own lines. Falk says to Marilyn Mason" Why dont you step into the kitchen and bake a couple dozen doughnuts" It just never stops...
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Summary: Spoof of all Spoofs
Review: What a spoof. Even Phil Silvers is added for the mayhem and glib references made in this corker. I can see all those favorite lines..that all have been quoting..how about" Peter Falk to Marsha Mason..." Why dont you go into the kitchen and bake a couple dozen doughnuts"? If you are a film fan..get some adhesive tape for your sides you might need it from laughing."Snell"!
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Summary: Sporadically Funny Spoof
Review: Writer Neil Simon employs the same approach to humor here that he did in "Murder by Death" by peppering the film with non-stop jokes. The problem is that there are more duds per legitimate laughs here in this send-up of Bogart films. Peter Falk's prescence here redeems the proceedings;he'd be funny reading the phone book. That said, with the material he's given here he may as well have been. Many character actors appear here and are virtually wasted. You could whittle this film down to a fifteen minute sketch for, say, the old "Carol Burnett Show" and you may have a passable enterprise.
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