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.
The Cheap Detective is of 1 hour(s) and 32 minute(s). It is Produced By: Columbia Pictures, EMI Films, Rastar Productions. It was released on 1978-06-23. It has the tagline: He knows every cheap trick, cheap joke, cheap shot and cheap dame in the book. It has an average vote of 6.2 on TMDB.
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