Murder by Death

Jun 23, 1976

1h 34m

★ 7.2

By the time the world's greatest detectives figure out whodunnit... you could die laughing!

Overview

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.

Genres

Comedy

Crime

Mystery

Thriller

Production Companies

Rastar Productions

Murder by Death Trailers

Cast

Lionel Twain

Truman Capote

Butler Jamesir Bensonmum

Alec Guinness

Sidney Wang

Peter Sellers

Dick Charleston

David Niven

Dora Charleston

Maggie Smith

Milo Perrier

James Coco

Sam Diamond

Peter Falk

Tess Skeffington

Eileen Brennan

Jessica Marbles

Elsa Lanchester

Nurse Withers

Estelle Winwood

Kitchen Maid Yetta

Nancy Walker

Marcel Cassette

James Cromwell

Mystery abounds when it is discovered that, one by one, the greatest Chefs in Europe are being killed. The intriguing part of the murders is that each chef is killed in the same manner that their own special dish is prepared in. Food critics and the (many) self-proclaimed greatest Chefs in Europe demand the mystery be solved.

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