June 23, 1976
94 minutes
ComedyCrimeMysteryThriller
Murder by Death
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.
Trailer
Cast
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)
Elsa Lanchester
(Jessica Marbles)
Estelle Winwood
(Nurse Withers)
Nancy Walker
(Kitchen Maid Yetta)
James Cromwell
(Marcel Cassette)
Richard Narita
(Willie Wang)
Fay Wray
(Door Bell (archive sound) (uncredited))
