[ReformationFan]

Today's feature is my favorite 1970s/1980s spoof film. Neil Simon does for Humphrey Bogart movies(mainly "Casablanca" and "The Maltese Falcon") what Mel Brooks did for westerns in "Blazing Saddles", black and white horror films in "Young Frankenstein" and Alfred Hitchcock film in "High Anxiety" and what the Zucker Brothers would later do for disaster films in "Airplane!". Peter Falk has a tour de force as the title character with a great supporting cast(standouts include Madeline Kahn as mysterious client with 14 names). It's also my favorite Neil Simon work as well that deserves to be better known. Enjoy.

[ReformationFan]

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[wally_bert]

I have the DVD around here. Cheap Detective and Murder By Death are favorites of mine. Casting people with talent.

Another one from those days was Murder Can Hurt You. A great parody of some of the TV cops.

Here is a piece:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLlrpsz5H5A

The full movie used to be out there.

[virgil283]

Ref : Thanks for finding this

...it's a great movie, I love the puns and it is well made film....

[Gefn]

Thank you, thank you. Peter Falk was one of my favorite actors. I have DVDs of him in Murder By Death, and The Great Race, and of course the entire boxed set of Columbo,

I’ve never seen this movie.

I’m stuck in bed with 102 fever and strep throat. I love me a good comedy. You’ve made my day.

[RansomOttawa]

Thanks! Murder by Death was another detective spoof by Neil Simon, wasn't it?