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Murder by Death
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.
1976 · Directed by Robert Moore · 94 min · Comedy · Crime · Mystery · 13 frames
Tagline
By the time the world's greatest detectives figure out whodunnit... you could die laughing!
Crew
- Written by: Neil Simon
- Cinematography: David M. Walsh
- Edited by: John F. Burnett
- Music: Dave Grusin
- Production design: Stephen B. Grimes
- Produced by: Ray Stark
Cast
- Truman Capote as Lionel Twain
- Alec Guinness as Butler Jamesir Bensonmum
- Peter Sellers as Sidney Wang
- David Niven as Dick Charleston
- Maggie Smith as Dora Charleston
- James Coco as Milo Perrier
- Peter Falk as Sam Diamond
- Eileen Brennan as Tess Skeffington
- Elsa Lanchester as Jessica Marbles
- Estelle Winwood as Nurse Withers
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Rastar Productions
- Box office: $32,511,047
- Themes: detective, butler, deaf-mute, guest, parody, murder, spoof, mansion, whodunit, cadaver
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