A spoof of the entire 1940s detective genre. San Francisco private detective, Lou Pekinpaugh is accused of murdering his partner at the instigation of his mistress—his partner's wife.
Acting
Falk's Bogart impression deserves its own wing at the Smithsonian
Writing
Neil Simon one-liners hit like cream pies to the face
Costume
Every fedora and trench coat is doing the MOST
Director
Robert Moore
Peter Falk
Lou Peckinpaugh
Ann-Margret
Jezebel Dezire
Eileen Brennan
Betty DeBoop
Sid Caesar
Ezra Dezire
Stockard Channing
Bess
James Coco
Marcel
Dom DeLuise
Pepe Damascus
Louise Fletcher
Marlene DuChard
John Houseman
Jasper Blubber
Madeline Kahn
Mrs. Montenegro
Fernando Lamas
Paul DuChard
Marsha Mason
Georgia Merkle
Phil Silvers
Hoppy
Abe Vigoda
Sergeant Rizzuto
Paul Williams
Boy
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Robert Moore directed Falk in the stage play 'The Prisoner of Second Avenue' before this spiritual sequel to 'Murder by Death.'
Released two years after 'The Last Tycoon,' this helped kill the '70s nostalgia wave for noir—by loving it too hard.
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