Murder by Death

Murder by Death

94 mins | Crime, Comedy, Thriller, Mystery | June 23, 1976

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.

Murder by Death

94 mins | Crime, Comedy, Thriller, Mystery | June 23, 1976

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.
IMDb rating 7.3
Producers Rastar Films
Original title Murder by Death
Directors David Sosna, Julia Tucker, Robert Moore, Fred T. Gallo
Writers Neil Simon

Cast

Alec Guinness

as Bensonmum

David Niven

as Dick Charleston

Maggie Smith

as Dora Charleston

Peter Sellers

as Sidney Wang

Peter Falk

as Sam Diamond

Eileen Brennan

as Tess Skeffington

James Coco

as Milo Perrier

Nancy Walker

as Maid

Elsa Lanchester

as Jessica Marbles

Estelle Winwood

as Nurse

Truman Capote

as Lionel Twain

James Cromwell

as Marcel Cassette

Richard Narita

as Willie Wang

Fay Wray

as Door Bell (archive sound) (uncredited)