The Cheap Detective - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[discussimdb]

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[richard]

One of eleven movies made by writer Neil Simon and producer Ray Stark. The others being Murder by Death (1976), California Suite (1978), Chapter Two (1979), The Sunshine Boys (1975), Seems Like Old Times (1980), The Goodbye Girl (1977), The Slugger's Wife (1985), Brighton Beach Memoirs (1986), Biloxi Blues (1988), and Lost in Yonkers (1993).

[richard]

Plaza Suite 1971

Film version of the Neil Simon play has three separate acts set in the same hotel suite in New Yorks Plaza Hotel with Walter Matthau in a triple role. In the first Karen Nash tries to get her inattentive husband Sams attention to spruce ...

Plaza Suite features witty, clever, humorous, semi serious and realistic style.

[thinkalot]

Same Time, Next Year 1978

A man and woman meet by chance at a romantic inn over dinner. Although both are married to others they find themselves in the same bed the next morning questioning how this could have happened. They agree to meet on the same weekend each year. ...

Same Time, Next Year features talky, sentimental, clever, feel good and realistic style.

[albert]

One of five movies written by Neil Simon that featured his then-wife Marsha Mason. The others being The Goodbye Girl (1977), Chapter Two (1979), Only When I Laugh (1981), and Max Dugan Returns (1983).

[jessica]

Second of three Neil Simon-written movies featuring James Coco. The others being Murder by Death (1976) and Only When I Laugh (1981), the latter being the only one based on one of Simon's plays. Coco also appeared in a stage version of Simon's Last of the Red Hot Lovers (1972) on Broadway.

[morris]

Dom DeLuise and Vic Tayback worked together in All Dogs Go to Heaven (1989).

[morris]

The name of the bar, Nix Place, is a spoof of the bar Rick's Place from Casablanca (1942). Neil Simon claimed that Warner Brothers had saved light fixtures and decorations from Humphrey Bogart's club in Casablanca (1942), allowing them to be re-used as props for Charles B. Pierce's Nix Place set. He also claimed some of the original waiters were re-used as well.

[caroline]

Clue 1985

Clue finds six colorful dinner guests gathered at the mansion of their host Mr. Boddy -- who turns up dead after his secret is exposed He was blackmailing all of them. With the killer among them the guests and Boddys chatty butler must suss ...

Clue features twists and turns, humorous, enigmatic, witty and captivating style.

[russell]

Knives Out 2019

When renowned crime novelist Harlan Thrombey is found dead at his estate just after his 85th birthday the inquisitive and debonair Detective Benoit Blanc is mysteriously enlisted to investigate. From Harlans dysfunctional family to his ...

Knives Out features captivating, witty, exciting, atmospheric and disturbing style.

[jessie]

The Cheap Detective 1978

Spoofing the entire 1940s detective genre and his own performances as a bumbling private detective Peter Falk plays Lou Pekinpaugh a San Francisco private detective accused of murdering his partner at the instigation of his mistress the ...

The Cheap Detective features humorous, realistic, not serious, witty and satirical style.

[phyllis]

The Private Eyes 1980

Don Knotts and Tim Conway star in The Private Eyes a 1980 comedy about two bumbling detectives solving a murder. Its an impressively incompetent affair. Every ancient joke falls with a muffled thud as Knotts and Conway ham their way through ...

The Private Eyes features humorous, not serious, suspenseful, surprise ending and funny style.

[eli]

Deathtrap 1982

A Broadway playwright puts murder in his plan to take credit for a students script.

Deathtrap features suspenseful, twists and turns, humorous, semi serious and psychological style.

[Wilmerblalk]

The Alphabet Murders 1965

The Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates a series of murders in London in which the victims are killed according to their initials.

The Alphabet Murders features humorous, witty, not serious and realistic

[kotnob]

Ten Little Indians 1965

Ten strangers are invited as weekend guests to a remote mountain mansion.When the host doesnt show up the guests start dying one by one in uniquely macabre Agatha Christie-style.It is based on Christies best-selling novel with 100 ...

Ten Little Indians features suspenseful, talky, psychological, tense and realistic style.

[ijlpcdygh]

Appointment with Death 1988

Emily Boynton stepmother to the three Boynton children -- Lennox Raymond and Carol -- and mother to Ginevra blackmails the family lawyer Jefferson Cope into destroying a second will of her late husband that would have freed the children from ...

Appointment with Death features talky, realistic, serious, suspenseful and clever style.

[albert]

Murder She Said 1961

Miss Marple believes shes seen a murder in a passing by train yet when the police find no evidence she decides to investigate it on her own. Her inquisitions lead her to a mountain top. The first of four films starring Margaret Rutherford as Miss ...

Murder She Said features serious, realistic, suspenseful, clever and cult film

[phyllis]

High Anxiety 1977

Dr. Richard Thorndyke arrives as new administrator of the Psychoneurotic Institute for the Very VERY Nervous to discover some suspicious goings-on. When hes framed for murder Dr. Thorndyke must confront his own psychiatric condition ...

High Anxiety features suspenseful, clever, humorous, witty and not serious style.

[darrell]

Oh Heavenly Dog 1980

Browning is a PI with a bad cold whos sent to investigate a case by a mysterious client. He stumbles across the body of a young woman and is stabbed to death and when he wakes up in heaven they tell him hes quotmarginal ...

Oh Heavenly Dog features humorous, semi serious, funny, light and entertaining style.

[WillBruh]

Her Alibi 1989

A writer of BAD detective novels is in full writers block. He pretends to be the alibi of a beautiful woman who was arrested for murder at first thinking her innocent but as she shows more and more interesting abilities such as knife ...

Her Alibi features sexy, feel good, humorous, semi serious and realistic style.