Film
Murder by Death (1976)
By the time the world's greatest detectives figure out whodunnit... you could die laughing!
Comedy, Crime, Mystery· Directed by Robert Moore· 94 min
Overview
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.
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- You are cordially invited to dinner... and a murder!
- By the time Eileen Brennan, Truman Capote, James Coco, Peter Falk, Alec Guinness, Elsa Lanchester, David Niven, Peter Sellers, Maggie Smith, Nancy Walker and Estelle Winwood figure out whodunnit, you'll die laughing.
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- Since June 23, 1976 millions of men and women have seen Neil Simon's "MURDER BY DEATH." Only 17 have understood the ending of the picture. Ask any one of them. Any one.
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Connections
Top billing
- Truman Capote as Lionel Twain
- Alec Guinness as Butler Jamesir Bensonmum
- Peter Sellers as Sidney Wang
- David Niven as Dick Charleston
- Maggie Smith as Dora Charleston