The cheap detective

Resource Information

The work The cheap detective represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Delaware County District Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

The cheap detective

Statement of responsibility

Columbia Pictures

Title variation

Neil Simon's the cheap detective

Contributor

• Columbia Pictures
• Columbia TriStar Home Video (Firm)
• E.M.I. Films
• trueAnn-Margret, 1941-
• Brennan, Eileen
• Caesar, Sid, 1922-2014
• Channing, Stockard
• Coco, James
• trueDeLuise, Dom
• Falk, Peter, 1927-2011
• Fletcher, Louise
• Houseman, John, 1902-1988
• Kahn, Madeline
• Lamas, Fernando
• trueMason, Marsha
• Moore, Robert, 1927-1984
• Silvers, Phil, 1911-1985
• Simon, Neil
• Stark, Ray
• Vigoda, Abe, 1921-2016
• Williams, Paul, 1940-
• trueWilliamson, Nicol

Subject

• Comedy films
• Criminal investigation -- Drama
• Detective and mystery films
• Parody films
• Private investigators -- Drama

Genre

• Comedy films
• Detective and mystery films
• trueDrama
• Parody films

Language

• eng
• spa
• eng
• chi
• kor
• por
• spa
• tha
• eng

Summary

Peter Falk plays a worldly, cynical gumshoe who takes on San Francisco, thugs, crooks, Nazis, femme fatales and the Golden Gate Bridge in this tribute to Bogie and the Hammett/Chandler school of hard-boiled detectives

Cataloging source

IAM

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Music, Patrick Williams ; director of photography, John A. Alonzo ; editors, Sidney Levin, Michael A. Stevenson ; production design, Robert Luthardt

Intended audience

Rated PG

Language note

Closed captioned

PerformerNote

Cast: Peter Falk, Ann-Margret, Eileen Brennan, Sid Caesar, Stockard Channing, James Coco, Dom DeLuise, Louise Fletcher, John Houseman, Madeline Kahn, Fernando Lamas, Marsha Mason, Phil Silvers, Abe Vigoda, Paul Williams, Nicol Williamson

Runtime

92

Target audience

general

Technique

live action