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Murder by Death

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

1976 · PG · 1h 34m

Directed by Robert Moore

7.1

TMDB audience score
948 votes, out of 10

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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.

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Cast

  • Truman Capote
    Lionel Twain

  • Alec Guinness
    Butler Jamesir Bensonmum

  • Peter Sellers
    Sidney Wang

  • David Niven
    Dick Charleston

  • Maggie Smith
    Dora Charleston

  • James Coco
    Milo Perrier

  • Peter Falk
    Sam Diamond

  • Eileen Brennan
    Tess Skeffington

  • Elsa Lanchester
    Jessica Marbles

  • Estelle Winwood
    Nurse Withers

  • Nancy Walker
    Kitchen Maid Yetta

  • James Cromwell
    Marcel Cassette

  • Richard Narita
    Willie Wang

  • Fay Wray
    Door Bell (archive sound) (uncredited)