Murder by Death

Murder by Death (1976)

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.

Date of release
1976-06-23
TMDB
7.1 / 10 (941)
Runtime
1h 34m
Genres
Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Director
Robert Moore

Casting

  • 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

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