Peeper (film)
| Peeper | |
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| Directed by | Peter Hyams |
| Produced by |
Robert Chartoff Irwin Winkler |
| Written by | W.D. Richter |
| Based on |
Deadfall by Keith Laumer |
| Starring |
Michael Caine Natalie Wood |
| Narrated by | Guy Marks |
| Music by | Richard Clements |
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Running time
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87 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $2,325,000 |
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.
Hyams said with the film he "managed to combine critical and commercial failure. And that made me colder than ice. Nobody wanted me."
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