Murder By Death (1976)

Murder By Death (1976)

Directed by Robert Moore and written by Neil Simon (The Goodbye Girl (1977)) this hilarious comedy mystery spoof boasts an all star cast that includes: Eileen Brennan and Truman Capote; James Coco playing a Hercules Poirot-like detective (Inspector Milo Perrier); Peter Falk playing a Sam Spade (Bogart)-like detective (Sam Diamond); Alec Guinness playing a blind butler (Jamesir Bensonmum) opposite Nancy Walker’s deaf & dumb cook Yetta; Elsa Lanchester as a Miss Marples-like detective (Miss Jessica Marbles) attended by her elderly nurse Miss Withers (Estelle Winwood); David Niven & Maggie Smith as a Nick & Nora Charles (The Thin Man series) duo (Dick and Dora Charleston); Peter Sellers as a Charlie Chan clone with #1 son Richard Narita (Inspector Sidney & Willie Wang); and James Cromwell plays Perrier’s manservant Marcel. Brennan appears as one of Sam’s blondes Tess Skeffington. Capote’s character (Lionel Twain) invites the confident detectives to his home on a stormy night to solve a murder his own! Each and every character has a motive for the killing which are revealed in so many amusing ways. Twist upon twist until you get whiplash!

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