Cheap Detective, The (1978) - (Movie Clip) We Couldn't Bend Her

Cheap Detective, The (1978) -- (Movie Clip) Nix Place

Writer Neil Simon takes his Bogart tribute character Lou Peckinpaugh (Peter Falk) into the Casablanca mode, introducing Scatman Crothers, James Coco, David Ogden Stiers, Nicol Williamson the Nazi, but mostly Eileen Brennan as chanteuse Betty DeBoop, in The Cheap Detective, 1978.

Cheap Detective, The (1978) -- (Movie Clip) Accent On The Desire

Peter Falk as writer Neil Simon’s parody private-eye Lou Peckinpaugh meets second-billed Ann-Margret, as Jezebel Dezire, and Sid Caesar as her less-functional husband Ezra, much talked-about but introduced a full hour into the film, in the Bogart-based The Cheap Detective, 1978.

Cheap Detective, The (1978) -- (Movie Clip) Carmen Montenegro

Still in the Maltese Falcon segment of Neil Simon's loving Bogart send-up, Peter Falk as San Francisco gumshoe Lou Peckinpaugh, following the murder of his partner, meets Madeline Kahn as multi-phasic Carmen, Mary Astor and many others, in The Cheap Detective, 1978.