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'. 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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Comic, ironic, intimate and unpretentious.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- intimateepic
- unpretentiousprestige
- cooloverwhelming
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“Is Truman Capote the best thing in Murder by Death?”
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Cast
- Truman CapoteLionel Twain
- Alec GuinnessButler Jamesir Bensonmum
- Peter SellersSidney Wang
- David NivenDick Charleston
- Maggie SmithDora Charleston
- James CocoMilo Perrier
- Peter FalkSam Diamond
- Eileen BrennanTess Skeffington
- Elsa LanchesterJessica Marbles
- Estelle WinwoodNurse Withers
Crew
- Robert MooreDirector
- Neil SimonWriter
- David M. WalshDirector of Photography
- Dave GrusinOriginal Music Composer
- John F. BurnettEditor
- Ray StarkProducer
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