Murder by Death (1976)

By the time the world's greatest detectives figure out whodunnit... you could die laughing!

Movie · Comedy, Crime, Mystery · 1h 34m · Rated 7.1/10 on TMDB · Released June 23, 1976

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.

Directed by Robert Moore

Cast

• 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
• James Coco as Milo Perrier
• Peter Falk as Sam Diamond
• Eileen Brennan as Tess Skeffington
• Elsa Lanchester as Jessica Marbles
• Estelle Winwood as Nurse Withers
• Nancy Walker as Kitchen Maid Yetta
• James Cromwell as Marcel Cassette

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