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Murder by Death

Cast

Alec Guinness, David Niven, Maggie Smith, Peter Sellers View All

Crew

Robert Moore (Director), Neil Simon (Writer) View All

Release: Jun. 23rd, 1976

Runtime: 1 hour, 34 minutes

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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Iroquois
The deconstructive air that hangs over proceedings does a decent job of justifying some of the cast's more outlandish characteristics (such as Peter Sellers yellowing up to play a thickly-accented Charlie Chan knock-off) in addition to offering some comical variations on a lot of the usual whodunit ....

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Citizen Rules
With a star studded cast, a script by Neil Simon and a creepy old mansion filled with spoofs of literary's greatest detectives, 1976's Murder by Death should have scored a knock out comic punch.