

Murder by Death(1976)
"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.
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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)
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