Jun 23, 1976
94 min
Full-HD

Murder by Death (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.

Category

Comedy Crime Mystery Thriller

Country

United States of America

Companies

Rastar Productions

Truman Capote

Lionel Twain

Alec Guinness

Butler Jamesir Bensonmum

Peter Sellers

Sidney Wang

David Niven

Dick Charleston

Maggie Smith

Dora Charleston

James Coco

Milo Perrier

Peter Falk

Sam Diamond

Eileen Brennan

Tess Skeffington

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