Cinematic Pie in the Eye
The Best Private Eye Spoofs

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One of the reasons these films work so well is because there's a sense of affection mixed in with the dead-on jabs and a real story to hang it all on...

Parody without focus is just a bad Saturday Night Live skit.

• My Favorite Brunette (1947, Paramount)
• The Black Bird (1975, Columbia)
• Murder By Death (1976, Columbia TriStar)
• The Cheap Detective (1978, Columbia/EMI)
• The Man With Bogart's Face (1980, Fox)
• Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982, Universal)
• The Big Lebowski (1998, Working Title Films)
• Brick (2005, Bergman Lustig Productions)
• Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005, Warner Bros.)

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