A character in a movie gets shot. As he dies (I think) he says ‘Oy! Would you look at that hole!’
What’s this from?
WAG: Saving Private Ryan?
Reminds me of the GI who takes a round in the helmet, looks at it and says “Well, I’ll be damned!”
A second later his brains are blown out.
No, it’s much older.
Is it a war movie?
The Cheap Detective
That’s it!
I’ve thought about that movie frequently lately. I’ve only seen it once, around the time it came out, and I thought it was so stupid I couldn’t bear watching it. Now I’d like to see it again.
Thanks.
Oh, it’s definitely worth a watch. Neil Simon writing for Peter Falk doing his best Humphrey Bogart; how could you go wrong?
I would never call it stupid, but it’s very silly. I think it helps to know the films it’s riffing on, particularly Casablanca and The Maltese Falcon. Kinda does for film noir what Airplane! did for disaster movies. Great cast, too.
Yeah, I think I’d appreciate it more nowadays.
Is this the same movie where Peter Falk says, ‘They were killed so fast they didn’t have time to fall down’?
I always get Cheap Detective confused with Murder by Death. They’re both ensemble comedies, Falk is in both and plays a Bogart-inspired character in both, and both were written by Neil Simon. I think Murder by Death was better, but I’m not sure I’m correctly remembering which bits were in which movie.
I also get them confused, since I rarely think about either of them. So when we recorded Murder By Death off of TCM, I thought we’d be watching The Cheap Detective.
Right line, but wrong actor. Abe Vigoda says it. It’s in the video I posted above, at about 1:20.