Murder by Death (1976)
By the time the world's greatest detectives figure out whodunnit... you could die laughing!
Synopsis
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.
Cast
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Truman Capote
as Lionel Twain
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Alec Guinness
as Butler Jamesir Bensonmum
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Peter Sellers
as Sidney Wang
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David Niven
as Dick Charleston
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Maggie Smith
as Dora Charleston
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James Coco
as Milo Perrier
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Peter Falk
as Sam Diamond
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Eileen Brennan
as Tess Skeffington
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Elsa Lanchester
as Jessica Marbles
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Estelle Winwood
as Nurse Withers
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Nancy Walker
as Kitchen Maid Yetta
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James Cromwell
as Marcel Cassette
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Richard Narita
as Willie Wang
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Fay Wray
as Door Bell (archive sound) (uncredited)
Crew
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Robert Moore
Director
- David M. Walsh Director of Photography
- John F. Burnett Editor
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Dave Grusin
Original Music Composer
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Ray Stark
Producer
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Neil Simon
Writer
