Peeper (film)

Peeper
Directed by	Peter Hyams
Produced by	Robert Chartoff Irwin Winkler
Written by	W.D. Richter
Based on	Deadfall by Keith Laumer
Starring	Michael Caine
Narrated by	Guy Marks
Release dates	January 1976 (1976-01)
Running time	87 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$2,325,000^[1]

Peeper is a 1976 comedy-mystery film directed by Peter Hyams that starred Michael Caine as Leslie C. Tucker, a bungling private investigator.^[2] 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.

Cast

Michael Caine as Leslie C. Tucker
Natalie Wood as Ellen Prendergast
Kitty Winn as Mianne Prendergast
Michael Constantine as Anglich
Thayer David as Frank Prendergast
Timothy Carey as Sid (credited as Timothy Agoglia Carey)
Liam Dunn as Billy Pate
Don Calfa as Rosie
Dorothy Adams as Mrs. Prendergast
Buffy Dee as Bazooka Himself
Robert Ito as Butler
Liz Renay as Stripper
Paul Jabara as Janitor

Reception

Hyams said with the film he "managed to combine critical and commercial failure. And that made me colder than ice. Nobody wanted me."^[3]

References

↑ Solomon, Aubrey. Twentieth Century Fox: A Corporate and Financial History (The Scarecrow Filmmakers Series). Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 1989. ISBN 978-0-8108-4244-1. p257
↑ "The New York Times". The New York Times. Retrieved 2012-03-29.
↑ Interview with Peter Hyams by Luke Ford accessed 27 July 2014

External links

Peeper at the Internet Movie Database

Films directed by Peter Hyams

Goodnight, My Love (1972)
Rolling Man (1972)
Busting (1974)
Our Time (1974)
Peeper (1975)
Capricorn One (1978)
Hanover Street (1979)
Outland (1981)
The Star Chamber (1983)
2010 (1984)
Running Scared (1986)
The Presidio (1988)
Narrow Margin (1990)
Stay Tuned (1992)
Timecop (1994)
Sudden Death (1995)
The Relic (1997)
End of Days (1999)
The Musketeer (2001)
A Sound of Thunder (2005)
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (2009)
Enemies Closer (2013)

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