Murder by Death

June. 23,1976      PG
Rating:
7.3
Trailer Synopsis Cast

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.

Truman Capote as  Lionel Twain
Alec Guinness as  Bensonmum
Peter Sellers as  Sidney Wang
David Niven as  Dick Charleston
Maggie Smith as  Dora Charleston
James Coco as  Milo Perrier
Peter Falk as  Sam Diamond
Eileen Brennan as  Tess Skeffington
Elsa Lanchester as  Jessica Marbles
Estelle Winwood as  Nurse

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