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Peeper is a american film of genre Thriller directed by Peter Hyams released in USA on 3 december 1975 with Michael Caine
Peeper (1975)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 3 december 1975
Length 1h27
Directed by Peter Hyams
OriginUSA
Themes Children's films
Rating56%
Peeper is a 1976 comedy-mystery film directed by Peter Hyams that starred Michael Caine as Leslie C. Tucker, a bungling private investigator. It was a send-up of the 1940s film noir genre, but it was released at the same approximate time as both the drama-mystery Chinatown and the Herbert Ross-directed Woody Allen comedy Play It Again, Sam, and as a direct result, Peeper was a box-office failure that jeopardized Hyams's career and almost prevented him from obtaining funding to produce Capricorn One.
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1947 à Hollywood. Lou Anglich échappe à une filature en frappant son poursuivant avec sa valise. Lorsque Leslie C. Tucker, un détective privé anglais, revient à son bureau, il trouve Anglich, qui le charge de retrouver a fille Anna, placée dans un orphelinat 29 ans auparavant. Anglich dit à Tucker qu'il a beaucoup d'argent et qu'il veut le donner à sa fille avant que ses "associés" le retrouvent et le tuent...Actors
Michael Caine
(Leslie C. Tucker)
Timothy Carey
(Sid)
Natalie Wood
(Ellen Prendergast)
Kitty Winn
(Mianne Prendergast)
Michael Constantine
(Anglich)
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