The Cheap Detective
Movie • 1978 • Comedy
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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.
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Is an animal abandoned?
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dinguspringus
Not technically, but there is a scene where live chicks are shown in Peckinpaugh‘s apartment, and then everyone leaves the apartment and the chicks are left there
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Live chicks were encased in fake egg shells for the characters to crack open
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dinguspringus
Peckinpaugh slaps DeBoop’s ass and she makes an annoyed face. Mrs. Dezire later grabs Peckinpaugh‘s ass
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Does the black guy die first?
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The one black guy (...) is fine
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