# Oy! Would you look at that hole! \[Movie ID\] **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [January 14, 2023, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oy-would-you-look-at-that-hole-movie-id/978202 "2023-01-14T04:08:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2023, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oy-would-you-look-at-that-hole-movie-id/978202/1 "2023-01-14T04:08:29Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2023, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oy-would-you-look-at-that-hole-movie-id/978202/2 "2023-01-14T04:13:08Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2023, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oy-would-you-look-at-that-hole-movie-id/978202/3 "2023-01-14T04:16:59Z")
No, it’s much older. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2023, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oy-would-you-look-at-that-hole-movie-id/978202/4 "2023-01-14T04:18:22Z")
Is it a war movie? ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2023, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oy-would-you-look-at-that-hole-movie-id/978202/5 "2023-01-14T04:22:10Z")
_The Cheap Detective_ ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2023, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oy-would-you-look-at-that-hole-movie-id/978202/6 "2023-01-14T04:25:23Z")
[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/z_A6AG6r6H0/hqdefault.jpg "The Cheap Detective (1978) - Running Jokes Montage 2/2") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_A6AG6r6H0) ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2023, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oy-would-you-look-at-that-hole-movie-id/978202/7 "2023-01-14T04:28:18Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2023, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oy-would-you-look-at-that-hole-movie-id/978202/8 "2023-01-14T04:42:39Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2023, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oy-would-you-look-at-that-hole-movie-id/978202/9 "2023-01-14T05:02:24Z")
Yeah, I think I’d appreciate it more nowadays. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2023, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oy-would-you-look-at-that-hole-movie-id/978202/10 "2023-01-14T05:36:47Z")
Is this the same movie where Peter Falk says, ‘They were killed so fast they didn’t have time to fall down’? ---
**Author:** ![markn\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2023, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oy-would-you-look-at-that-hole-movie-id/978202/11 "2023-01-14T07:28:00Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2023, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oy-would-you-look-at-that-hole-movie-id/978202/12 "2023-01-14T14:34:28Z")
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_. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2023, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oy-would-you-look-at-that-hole-movie-id/978202/13 "2023-01-14T14:43:59Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Is this the same movie where Peter Falk says, ‘They were killed so fast they didn’t have time to fall down’? Right line, but wrong actor. Abe Vigoda says it. It’s in the video I posted above, at about 1:20.