Murder By Death
1976
Neil Simon's screenplay is a clever spoof on murder mysteries in which eccentric millionaire Lionel Twain (Truman Capote) invites the world's greatest detectives to his home and challenges them to solve the perfect murder. Among the sleuths that try to solve the case are Milo Perrier (James Coco), Sam Diamond (Peter Falk), .. Read more
| Starring | Eileen Brennan, Truman Capote, Peter Falk, Peter Sellers |
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| Director | Robert Moore |
| Genres | Comedy |
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Murder By Death
Neil Simon's screenplay is a clever spoof on murder mysteries in which eccentric millionaire Lionel Twain (Truman Capote) invites the world's greatest detectives to his home and challenges them to solve the perfect murder. Among the sleuths that try to solve the case are Milo Perrier (James Coco), Sam Diamond (Peter Falk), Jessica Marbles (Elsa Lanchester), Dick and Dora Charleston (David Niven and Maggie Smith), and Sidney Wang (Peter Sellers), all of whom are easy-to-guess but altogether sharp parodies of beloved literary characters.
| Starring | Eileen Brennan, Truman Capote, Peter Falk, Peter Sellers, David Niven, Maggie Smith, Alec Guinness, Elsa Lanchester, James Coco, Estelle Winwood, Nancy Walker |
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| Director | Robert Moore |
| Studio | SONY PICTURES HOME ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 31 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Comedy |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Subtitles | DVD: Arabic, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish |
| Released | DVD: 10 Mar 2003 Production year: 1976 |
| Format | DVD |
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A bizarre hotch-potch of greats, also-rans and has-beens combine to pay the mortgage in one of those whodunnits in a big house. Truman Capote has gathered together the world's top sleuths to present them with a slaying due to take place at midnight, and only Maggie Smith is worth watching as the hands creep round. This one belongs firmly in the genre that maintains that as long as you can get enough famous names on the poster the public will accept anything. Not true.
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Sometimes thin but generally likeable spoof of a longstanding genre; the stars seize their opportunities avidly, and the film does not outstay its welcome.
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7 out of 8 people found this review helpful
Absolute Classic
I first stumbled across this film a few years back on late night tele, and loved it from the first to last minute. Each actor/ess is perfectly cast, but Peter Falk steals the film with a brilliant portrayal of top PI Sam Spade. If you like spoofs get this, you won't regret it.
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7 out of 8 people found this review helpful
Absolute Classic
I first stumbled across this film a few years back on late night tele, and loved it from the first to last minute. Each actor/ess is perfectly cast, but Peter Falk steals the film with a brilliant portrayal of top PI Sam Spade. If you like spoofs get this, you won't regret it.
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Murder By Death
Neil Simon's screenplay is a clever spoof on murder mysteries in which eccentric millionaire Lionel Twain (Truman Capote) invites the world's greatest detectives to his home and challenges them to solve the perfect murder. Among the sleuths that try to solve the case are Milo Perrier (James Coco), ...
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