Murder by Death

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

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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.

Released: Jun 23, 1976

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Truman Capote

Lionel Twain

Alec Guinness

Butler Jamesir Bensonmum

Peter Sellers

Sidney Wang

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