The Cheap Detective(1978)
He knows every cheap trick, cheap joke, cheap shot and cheap dame in the book.
A spoof of the entire 1940s detective genre. San Francisco private detective, Lou Pekinpaugh is accused of murdering his partner at the instigation of his mistress—his partner's wife.
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Lou Peckinpaugh
Jezebel Dezire
Betty DeBoop
Ezra Dezire
Bess
Marcel
Pepe Damascus
Marlene DuChard
Jasper Blubber
Mrs. Montenegro
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