Rating: PG
Genre: Comedy
Release Date: 11/13/2001
SubTitles: English/Espanol/Por/KO/TH
Dubbed: English/Espanol
Sound: 5.1/1
Run Time: 92 Minutes
Flags: Questionable for Children, Adult Language
Distributor/Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

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 partner's wife, Georgia Merkle (Marsha Mason). Police Lieutenant DiMaggio (Vic Tayback) has his eye on Lou and blunders around in a way which complicates Lou's efforts to clear his name. Lou gets a new client when Mrs. Montenegro (Madeline Kahn) and her cronies (John Housman, Paul Williams and Dom DeLuise) hire him to search out a dozen diamond eggs. Marlene DuChard (Louise Fletcher) also comes to him for help of a complicated nature. In this madcap comedy written by Neil Simon, obstacles and complications appear every few minutes, and a great many famous actors show up in hilarious cameos.

~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide

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Cast:
Peter Falk - Lou Peckinpaugh
Ann-Margret - Jezebel Dezire
Eileen Brennan - Betty DeBoop
Sid Caesar - Ezra Dezire
Stockard Channing - Bess
James Coco - Marcel
Dom DeLuise - Pepe Damascus
Louise Fletcher - Marlene DuChard
John Houseman - Jasper Blubber
Madeline Kahn - Mrs. Montenegro
Fernando Lamas - Paul DuChard
Marsha Mason - Georgia Merkle
Phil Silvers - Hoppy
Abe Vigoda - Sgt. Rizzuto
Paul Williams - Boy
Nicol Williamson - Col. Schissel
Emory Bass - Butler
Carmine Caridi - Sgt. Crosseti
Scatman Crothers - Tinker
Vic Tayback - Lt. DiMaggio

Production:
Robert Moore - Director
Margaret Booth Raymond Stark - Producer
Patrick Williams - Composer
Sid Levin Michael A. Stevenson - Editor
Neil Simon - Screen Writer
Charles R. Pierce - Set Designer
Charles R. Pierce - Art Director
Phillip Bennett - Art Director
John A. Alonzo - Cinematographer
Agnes G. Henry - Costume Designer
John A. Anderson - Costume Designer
Theoni V. Aldredge - Costume Designer
Charles Schram - Makeup
Robert Luthardt - Production Designer
Ronald L. Schwary - Production Manager
Lyle J. Burbridge - Sound/Sound Designer
Wiliam L. McCaughey - Sound/Sound Designer
Augie Lohman - Special Effects
Al Overton, Jr. - Sound/Sound Designer

Clue
    Eileen Brennan / PG / 1985
Murder by Death
    Eileen Brennan / PG / 1976
The Big Lebowski [WS] [Collector's Edition]
    Jeff Bridges / R / 1998
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
    Steve Martin / PG / 1982
Pulp
    Michael Caine / PG / 1972