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The Cheap Detective 1978

92 minutes

'Who dunnit? This time it's Neil Simon who's really dunnit.'

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.

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