The Late Show

TCM's Alicia Malone introduces The Late Show, 1977.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces The Late Show, 1977.

Detective Ira (Art Carney) and looney client Margo (Lily Tomlin) follow their paid-for clue to the apartment where crook Escobar was hiding, and they find her cat, so she considers the case finished, but he notes complications, and meets the armed Joanna Cassidy, in Robert Benton’s acclaimed The Late Show, 1977.

Old-school LA private eye Ira (Art Carney) has figured out that ex-actress freelance whatever Margo (Lily Tomlin) didn’t tell him she had already hired his partner, since shot and killed, to find her cat, when she asked him to take the job, in writer-director Robert Benton’s The Late Show, 1977.

From the opening scene we know that Art Carney is retiring LA private eye Ira Wells, working on a memoir, when his partner arrives fatally wounded, and now at the funeral where we meet Charlie (Bill Macy) and Margo (Lily Tomlin), in writer-director Robert Benton’s The Late Show, 1977.