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Spoof | Private Detective
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A decade before working together on this picture, Michael Caine and Natalie Wood dated in real life for approximately two months.
The opening titles are not printed or written out on screen, but are instead spoken to the audience by Humphrey Bogart impersonator and impressionist Guy Marks. This performance has often been erroneously attributed to Jerry Lacy, who had played Bogart in Herbert Ross' and Woody Allen's Play It Again, Sam (1972).
One of several 1970s spoofs of film-noir and hard-boiled detective movies of the 1940s from the likes of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, some of which starred Humphrey Bogart, who was the main target of the parodies. The movies included Murder by Death (1976) and The Cheap Detective (1978), both from Neil Simon, The Long Goodbye (1973), Woody Allen's Play It Again, Sam (1972), The Man with Bogart's Face (1980), and this movie.
This movie was Natalie Wood's first theatrical movie in seven years, her last having been Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969). In the interim though, Wood did appear in the television movie The Affair (1973).
This movie was originally released in a handful of theaters as "Fat Chance". When it finally gained a wider release, the title was changed to "Peeper" confusing potential audiences and effectively resulting in a death knell at the box-office.
"Mianne Prendergast: [after spotting Natalie Wood wandering around her estate in a slinky silk robe and Joan Crawford high heel] If you wander inside, she'll probably rape you! Leslie C. Tucker: There's no rush..."
"Anglich: Listen to me, I put my kid in an orphanage 29 years ago. It was a nice place; trees, flowers, other kids to play with. And I had to go away, on business. You get the picture? Anglich: When you came back, she was gone - and you are holding my shirt. Thank you. Anglich: Only two years later, they give her away to some stranger. Leslie C. Tucker: She was adopted you mean? Anglich: Adopted! The place is a pawn shop. I got a hold of this mug that worked there, charged me 75 dollars - in 1919, that's a million - anyhow, told me she was took by a guy named Conroy. Leslie C. Tucker: Where's this Conroy now? Anglich: Beats me. At the old address nobody knows him, I checked the first day I got in town. Anglich: What do you mean, "got in town"? Anglich: I've been in Tampa, Florida. I left L.A. 12 years ago. I only been back a couple of days. Anglich: You mean you haven't looked for your daughter since 1918? Anglich: [grabs him by the shirt] I've been busy!"
