1976 · comedy · crime · mystery
Murder by Death
Directed by Robert Moore1h 34m1976
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.
Our read: Murder by Death (1976) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive comedy · crime · mystery entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured comedy / crime, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
- twisty
- funny
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“You want silly detective parody with Peter Sellers, Alec Guinness, and zero pretension.”
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