Dummy Detective

Dummy Detective

2014 · Comedy, Crime

Follow the daring, action-packed exploits of Peter Mache, Master Detective in the Case of the Plaster Parrot. Be amazed, as Peter, a store mannequin dummy, along with a shop window full of characters, comes alive to spoof those wonderful film noir movies of long ago. Any similarities to the 'B' movies of the 1940s and 1950s and the Maltese Falcon are fully intended. Peter, pursuing the famous baseball-sized Belvedere Diamond, falls from a twenty story building and in love with a dame- there's always a dame ain't there? She's Lotta the girl with a lotta you know what! The evil Big Man, who has to be seen to be believed, tries to foil Peter's plans.

Directed by Rob Margolies

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