@calfoxwc said:

I have always gotten a kick out of Bernadette Peters. She is hilarious.

She was cute AF

@calfoxwc said:

Nickers -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cheap_Detective

"

Cast

• Peter Falk as Lou Peckinpaugh (Humphrey Bogart) ***
• Madeline Kahn as Mrs. Montenegro
• Dom DeLuise as Pepe Damascus (Peter Lorre)
• Louise Fletcher as Marlene DuChard
• Ann-Margret as Jezebel Dezire
• Eileen Brennan as Betty DeBoop
• Stockard Channing as Bess
• Sid Caesar as Ezra Dezire
• Marsha Mason as Georgia Merkle
• John Houseman as Jasper Blubber (Sydney Greenstreet)
• Vic Tayback as Lieutenant DiMaggio
• Abe Vigoda as Sgt. Rizzuto
• Carmine Caridi as Sgt. Crosetti
• James Coco as Marcel
• Phil Silvers as Hoppy
• Fernando Lamas as Paul DuChard
• Nicol Williamson as Col. Schlissel
• James Cromwell as Schnell
• Scatman Crothers as Tinker (Dooley Wilson)
• Paul Williams as Boy
• David Ogden Stiers as Captain
• John Calvin as Qvicker
• Arthur Tovey as Vladimir Korsokovowitz"

I vaguely remember it now... What an all star cast.. I haven't heard Stockard Channings name since I was a kid.. John Housman was another name I forgot about... Great stuff! When movies were cool and you didn't have some stupid broads with cottage cheese hangin out of their shorts..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cheap_Detective

"

Cast

• Peter Falk as Lou Peckinpaugh (Humphrey Bogart) ***
• Madeline Kahn as Mrs. Montenegro
• Dom DeLuise as Pepe Damascus (Peter Lorre)
• Louise Fletcher as Marlene DuChard
• Ann-Margret as Jezebel Dezire
• Eileen Brennan as Betty DeBoop
• Stockard Channing as Bess
• Sid Caesar as Ezra Dezire
• Marsha Mason as Georgia Merkle
• John Houseman as Jasper Blubber (Sydney Greenstreet)
• Vic Tayback as Lieutenant DiMaggio
• Abe Vigoda as Sgt. Rizzuto
• Carmine Caridi as Sgt. Crosetti
• James Coco as Marcel
• Phil Silvers as Hoppy
• Fernando Lamas as Paul DuChard
• Nicol Williamson as Col. Schlissel
• James Cromwell as Schnell
• Scatman Crothers as Tinker (Dooley Wilson)
• Paul Williams as Boy
• David Ogden Stiers as Captain
• John Calvin as Qvicker
• Arthur Tovey as Vladimir Korsokovowitz"

@calfoxwc said:

We watched this movie a few weeks ago. I've watched it again myself.

It's a comedy - a lot like a parody of Humphrey Bogart in "Casablanca".

The one liners are hilarious, the women characters are

deliberately stereotyped and really funny. Peter Falk is great.

There is a long list of stars who are in this movie - I figure they wanted to

be in it when they read the script. It's really funny.

   One example - The detective meets with a woman who needs his help, like old serious detective movies,

and she finally, after a lot of one liners, she says to him in the doorway- for him to call her.

She says "you know how do dial don't ,you? Just put your finger in the little round hole"....

I'll probably watch it again - seems that in the background, there are visual jokes I missed before.

It's fast moving, really funny - a fun old 1970's movie to watch.

Grade - B+

But if you have no sense of humor, and never watched old detective movies from the days of "Casablanca" and "The Maltese Falcon"............you may not like it.

I'm a huge Peter Falk/Frank Columbo fan... Thanks.. I'll check this one out...