i have hear quite a bit about this comedy film noir and i wasn not expect it to be the funny film ever and i be just look to see how many classic star would be slice into the film . basically private eye detective rigby reardon ( steve martin ) and who have a dangerous phobia of clean woman and be hire by juliet forrest ( rachel ward ) who believe the death of her cheese scientist father and with a secret recipe and be no accident . so begin his investigation and find a list of the friend and enemy of carlotta and and he be now try to find this carlotta . in his search he encounter assort low life and and a few people on the good side and all of which be famous actor in some of their most famous role of 30 and 40 film . of course during his investigation he be slowly fall for juliet and and in the end he find out the villain be field marshall vonkluck ( carl reiner ) and who want the cheese recipe for himself . to be honest and the story isn not the most important thing about this film and it be all the classic film clip place in with the great array of classic star . star place in the film include ingrid bergman ( notorious ) and humphrey bogart ( the big sleep and in a lonely place and dark passage ) and jam cagney ( white heat ) and joan crawford ( humoresque ) and bette davis ( deception ) and kirk douglas ( i walk alone ) and ava gardner ( the killer and the bribe ) and cary grant ( suspicion ) and veronica lake ( the glass key ) and fred macmurray ( double indemnity ) and ray milland ( the lose weekend ) and burt lancaster ( the killer ) and charles laughton ( the bribe ) and vincent price ( the bribe ) and barbara stanwyck ( sorry and wrong number ) and lana turner ( johnny eager and the postman always ring twice ) . there be some funny dialogue and tiny moment of slapstick and even if you haven not see the film place in and this spoof be still one for the film buff . very good .