Peeper (1975) on Netflix
PG19751h 27mComedyCrimeMystery
Los Angeles, 1947. Private detective Leslie C. Tucker is hired to find the daughter Lou Anglich left at an orphanage. The search leads to a Beverly Hills house and two sisters.
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- Netflix2.0/5
- IMDb5.6/101,066 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes22%
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Plot summary
Lou Anglich, who says he made his money in Florida, comes to the office of Leslie C. Tucker, an English private detective, with a case. Anglich left his daughter Anna at an orphanage about thirty years earlier and wants Tucker to find her and hand over his fortune before the business associates hunting him can. He shows Tucker an old photograph of Anna and Fred Conroy, the man said to have adopted her, at a stone gate. The next day Tucker finds a Beverly Hills house matching the photograph and enters through an open door. Franklin W. Prendergast is in the atrium, and posing as a reporter Tucker learns that the man in the photograph was Frank's dead brother, Harry. As Tucker leaves, Ellen Prendergast makes a date with him.
Cast
- Harvey J. Goldenbergas Mailman
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Peeper (1975)
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- A send-up of 1940s films noirs, Peeper flopped at the box office and put Peter Hyams's career at risk, nearly blocking the funding for Capricorn One.
- Peter Hyams had worked with the producers on Busting, so they brought him in to redo W.D. Richter's script and take the directing job, since they enjoyed the comic elements of Busting.
- Keith Laumer's 1971 novel Deadfall, which the script was based on, was republished in 1975 as Fat Chance with film tie-in covers.
