Richard Deacon Movies

A private eye spoof that sends up assorted TV detectives from Ironside, Columbo and Kojak to Baretta, McCloud and Starsky and Hutch, as eight...

A spinster finally finds the right man when she returns to her alma mater after 15 years for a class reunion.

A crooked police detective masterminds a robbery then fights to keep the stolen money.

A man falls madly in love with a pretty newscaster and goes all out to win her heart and her hand in marriage before she weds another man.

Xaviera Hollander has to navigate some sleazy studio politics to see the production of the film version of her memoirs.

Four teens on the run from an orphanage spring a fellow orphan recently adopted by a rich family, then trash the whole house.

New Tinseltown gossip columnist Dina Moran helps faded movie star Georgia O'Hanlon dig up dirt on amoral characters.

Two bunglers (Tom Ewell, Mickey Rooney) rob a bank and buy a racehorse, then try to rob another bank.

Ma and the kids head out to help Pa's brother Sedgewick with the his farm in Mournful Hollow, Arkansas. Things get tighter when a couple of...

A lonely Ohio spinster hopes to find romance when she travels to New York City for a postmasters' convention.

Arthur is asked to pick up a bird for Thanksgiving dinner, so he brings home a 266-pound chicken named Henrietta. The family welcome her with open...

Steve Martin's second NBC special was made up entirely of sketches. Highlights include: Marty Robbins' "El Paso" with monkeys; "The Death Of...

Parker Ballantine is a New York theater critic and his wife writes a play that may or may not be very good. Now Parker must either get out of...

A drama critic learns on his wedding day that his beloved maiden aunts are homicidal maniacs, and that insanity runs in his family.

Middle-aged middle-manager Jim Fry, with the same company for fifteen years, is in a comfortable rut. But life becomes less predictable when he...

A film director turns his actress wife into a star, leading to marital problems.

An ambitious executive jeopardizes his career to marry a European refugee.

Retired football player and current P. I. Brock Callahan (Ken Clark) is hired to investigate the death of a decorator. The police think it's a...

In New York City, a bank robbery of $300,000 goes unsolved for a year, until some of the marked bills are found in a Los Angeles drugstore theft....

A story about a girl from the sticks doing drudge work at a hotel and dreaming of a better life.