Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 92 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
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.
- spoof
The bill
- Stockard Channing — Bess
- James Coco — Marcel
- Dom DeLuise — Pepe Damascus
- Louise Fletcher — Marlene DuChard
- John Houseman — Jasper Blubber
- Madeline Kahn — Mrs. Montenegro
- Fernando Lamas — Paul DuChard
- Marsha Mason — Georgia Merkle
- Phil Silvers — Hoppy
- Abe Vigoda — Sergeant Rizzuto
- Paul Williams — Boy
- Directed
- Robert Moore
- Written
- Neil Simon
Production
- Rating
- 6.3 / 10 · 109 ratings
- Studio
- Columbia Pictures, EMI Films, Rastar Productions
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
