Murder by Death (1976) ★ 7.1PG1h34

Name: Murder by Death
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Released: 1976
Rating: 7.1
Cast: Truman Capote, Alec Guinness, Peter Sellers, David Niven, Maggie Smith

Comedy · Crime · Mystery

Director Robert Moore

Also directed The Cheap Detective, Chapter Two, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and 2 more

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
Alec Guinness
Peter Sellers
David Niven
Maggie Smith
James Coco
Peter Falk

Murder by Death (1976) ★ 7.1PG1h34

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