Murder by Death (1976)
By the time the world's greatest detectives figure out whodunnit... you could die laughing!
1976 · PG · 1h 34m · Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Genres: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Lionel Twain invites the world's five greatest detectives to a 'dinner and murder'. Included are a blind butler, a deaf-mute maid, screams, spinning rooms, secret passages, false identities and more plot turns and twists than are decently allowed.
Director: Robert Moore
Writers: Neil Simon
Music by: Dave Grusin
Cinematography: David M. Walsh
Editor: John F. Burnett
Box office: $33M · Rated 7.1/10 by 917 viewers
Cast
Truman Capote as Lionel TwainAlec Guinness as Butler Jamesir BensonmumPeter Sellers as Sidney WangDavid Niven as Dick CharlestonMaggie Smith as Dora CharlestonJames Coco as Milo PerrierPeter Falk as Sam DiamondEileen Brennan as Tess SkeffingtonElsa Lanchester as Jessica MarblesEstelle Winwood as Nurse WithersNancy Walker as Kitchen Maid YettaJames Cromwell as Marcel CassetteMore like this
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