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Peeper (film)
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Wikipedia article
'Peeper' is a 1975 American mystery comedy film directed by Peter Hyams and starring Michael Caine as Leslie C. Tucker, a bungling private investigator. It was a send-up of 1940s film noir. 'Peeper' was a box-office failure that jeopardized Hyams's career and almost prevented him from obtaining funding to produce 'Capricorn One.'
Plot
The film is set in Los Angeles in 1947. A criminal on the run from hired killers comes to the office of a private detective named Tucker and asks Tucker to find a daughter he left at an orphanage in 1918. The man has a substantial amount of money that he wants to give the girl. Tucker's search leads him to two sisters, daughters of a rich Beverly Hills widow. Tucker is sure one of the sisters is the man's daughter, but he's not sure which is the right one. Meanwhile, the killers chasing Tucker's client are now chasing the detective, and Tucker also discovers that the widow's brother-in-law may be blackmailing the two girls and/or embezzling from the widow. Tucker also keeps encountering a mysterious stranger who seems to know more than he admits, and may or may not be working with the brother-in-law. Ultimately everyone ends up on a cruise ship headed to South America and the various mysteries are resolved.
Cast
Production
The film originally was titled 'Fat Chance' and began filming in June 1974.Fat Chance' to Begin Shooting
Los Angeles Times 3 Apr 1974: 29. The producers had worked with Peter Hymans on 'Busting' and hired him to rewrite W.D. Richter's script and direct because they liked the comic elements of 'Busting'.
Reception
Hyams said he "managed to combine critical and commercial failure. And that made me colder than ice. Nobody wanted me."[http://www.lukeford.net/profiles/profiles/peter_hyams.htm Interview with Peter Hyams by Luke Ford] accessed 27 July 2014
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