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Murder by Death is a 1976 American mystery comedy film with a cast featuring Eileen Brennan, Truman Capote, James Coco, Peter Falk, Alec Guinness, Elsa Lanchester, David Niven, Peter Sellers, Maggie Smith, Nancy Walker, and Estelle Winwood, written by Neil Simon and directed by Robert Moore.
Murder by Death is a 1976 American comedy mystery film directed by Robert Moore and written by Neil Simon. The film stars Eileen Brennan, Truman Capote, James Coco, Peter Falk, Alec Guinness, Elsa Lanchester, David Niven, Peter Sellers, Maggie Smith, Nancy Walker, and Estelle Winwood.
Jun 23, 1976 · Murder by Death: Directed by Robert Moore. With Eileen Brennan, Truman Capote, James Coco, Peter Falk. Five famous literary detective characters and their sidekicks are invited to a bizarre mansion to solve an even stranger mystery.
Five diverse, infamous private eyes, including Sam Diamond (Peter Falk), Sidney Wang (Peter Sellers) and Jessica Marbles (Elsa Lanchester), are invited to the mysterious Lionel Twain's castle for...
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Neil Simon pays homage to classic detective films in his parody Murder By Death (1976). The original screenplay by the author of The Odd Couple (1968) and The Sunshine Boys (1975) features an all-star cast spoofing well-known detectives like Sam Spade, Nick and Nora Charles, Hercule Poirot, and Charlie Chan.
A mysterious millionaire named Lionel Twain (Truman Capote) sends invitations to master detectives Dick and Dora Charleston (David Niven and Maggie Smith), Inspector Sidney Wang (Peter Sellers), Milo Perrier (James Coco), Sam Diamond (Peter Falk), and Jessica Marbles (Elsa Lancaster).
Murder By Death. An eccentric millionaire invites the world's top detectives to his remote mansion to involve them in a baffling whodunit, convinced he can out-sleuth them all. 7,992 IMDb 7.3 1 h 34 min 1976. X-Ray PG. Comedy · Suspense · Mysterious · Outlandish. Available to rent or buy. Rent. HD $3.59. Buy. HD $14.09. More purchase. options.
Written by skateboardin on July 3, 2021. 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.
Murder by Death (1976) directed by Robert Moore • Reviews, film + cast • Letterboxd. 1976. Directed by Robert Moore. By the time the world’s greatest detectives figure out whodunnit… you could die laughing! Lionel Twain invites the world’s five greatest detectives to a ‘dinner and murder’.
MURDER BY DEATH. Directed byRobert Moore. United States, 1976. Comedy, Mystery, Crime. 95. Synopsis. Five famous literary detective characters and their sidekicks—satirizing everything from old Charlie Chan films to Miss Marple—are invited to a bizarre mansion to solve an even stranger mystery. Synopsis.
