Murder by Death (1976)

1976 · 94 min · Comedy, Crime, Mystery

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.

Directed by Robert Moore. Starring Truman Capote, Alec Guinness, Peter Sellers, David Niven and Maggie Smith.

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