Film

Murder by Death

1976 · 1h 34m · Comedy · Crime · Mystery

By the time the world's greatest detectives figure out whodunnit... you could die laughing!

IMDb

7.2

Rotten Tomatoes

63%

Metacritic

59

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

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)

• Robert MooreDirector
• Neil SimonWriter
• Ray StarkProducer
• David M. WalshDirector of Photography
• Dave GrusinOriginal Music Composer
• John F. BurnettEditor
• Jennifer ShullCasting

Murder by Death - TrailerMurder By Death ≣ 1976 ≣ Trailer

Release date

June 23, 1976

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

1h 34m

Rated

PG

Revenue

$32,511,047

Genres

Comedy, Crime, Mystery

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