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

Gunder Jomann lives in the small place of Elvestad. He prepares to receive his wife, Poona Bai, who he met and married in India. Gunder gets delayed when his sister is injured in a car accident and he sends the local taxidriver to transport her to him at the hospital but the chauffeur do not find her. The following day the body of a foreign woman is found on a meadow, few meters from Gunders house. Inspector Konrad Sejer tries to unravel the mystery and discoveres soon that the dead person is Gunder's wife, Poona. Who killed her, and why?

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