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

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) We Couldn't Bend Her

Writer Neil Simon opens the follow-up to the parody Murder By Death, with schtick for San Francisco cops Vic Tayback and Abe Vigoda, with loose Maltese Falcon elements, setting the stage for Peter Falk, leading man in the Bogart tribute mash-up The Cheap Detective, 1978.