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Penelope Gilliatt The New Yorker Never before have been collected in one film such confident wild syntax as Peter Sellers’, such delicate disgust and common sense as Maggie Smith’s, such enthusiasm about makeup for seventy-six-year-olds as Truman Capote’s. Mar 4, 2024 Full Review Variety Staff Variety Murder by Death is a very good silly-funny Neil Simon satirical comedy, with a super all-star cast cavorting as recognizable pulp fiction detectives gathered at the home of Truman Capote, wealthy hedonist fed up with contrived gumshoe plots. Oct 3, 2007 Full Review Dave Kehr Chicago Reader Stunningly unfunny. Oct 3, 2007 Full Review Josh Larsen LarsenOnFilm ...has a paucity of comic imagination that’s timelessly disheartening. Rated: 1/4 Sep 10, 2024 Full Review Jana Monji Age of the Geek Yes the writer Neil Simon is a notable American playwright and screenwriter and I love seeing Peter Falk and I enjoy Peter Sellers, but Sellers' yellowface as a Charlie Chan parody is cringey in 2024. Rated: 2/5 Aug 16, 2024 Full Review Steve Warren The Barb (Atlanta) Mystery fans will be disappointed... Simon fans, however, will adore the usual plethora of one-liners, and everyone will admire the acting of a star-studded cast. May 9, 2023 Full Review Read all reviews

Emily T So weird. What actually happened? The Chinaman character was cringe. Sam diamond was annoying. So completely disorienting and strange. Maggie Smith looked good. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 12/28/24 Full Review Bonzo G Couldn't make it past 10mins, I tried, but 1-liners, sight gags and stereotypes?!? Rated 1 out of 5 stars 12/02/24 Full Review Péter D For me, it is one of the best movies of all time that I can watch at any time. Excellent actors, great style parody and lovable script. Every minute of it is worth gold, even though it won't change the world, it'll just keep you pleasantly entertained. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 07/01/24 Full Review Alec B I do kind of appreciate the call outs against the bad mystery writing that pervaded a lot of supposedly "classic" characters of the genre. That said, it all gets a little one note. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/21/24 Full Review Misty S The old sleuth classic with the classic movie stars, adore this movie💯 Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/11/24 Full Review Paul M An comedy gem which makes fun of - yet has such love for - pop culture's classic sleuths like Charlie Chan, Sam Spade, and Hercule Poirot, "Murder By Death" brings fun and laughs like only writer Neil Simon can deliver. Killer cast too - omg, there are so many fantastic performances and lines! Unfortunately these days this movie is overshadowed by "Clue," its overrated ripoff, made 10 years after. But "Murder By Death" is the original detective parody and the better movie. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/01/24 Full Review Read all reviews

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Synopsis Five diverse, infamous private eyes, including Sam Diamond (Peter Falk), Sidney Wang (Peter Sellers) and Jessica Marbles (Elsa Lanchester), are invited to the mysterious Lionel Twain's castle for a dinner party. There, they are told that Twain plans an unsolvable murder in the house at midnight -- and he will pay $1 million to the one who determines the killer. But when Twain's blind butler, Bensonmum (Alec Guinness), dies long before the deadline, the stakes go up for the trapped sleuths.

Director

Robert Moore

Producer

Ray Stark

Screenwriter

Neil Simon

Production Co

Columbia Pictures Corporation, Rastar Pictures

Rating

PG

Genre

Comedy

Original Language

English

Release Date (Theaters)

Jun 23, 1976, Original

Release Date (Streaming)

Apr 1, 2010

Runtime

1h 34m

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