Murder by Death

Murder by Death

  • Director: Robert Moore
  • Countries of origin: United States
  • Language: English
  • Release date: June 23, 1976
  • Sound mix: Mono
  • Also known as: Neil Simon's Murder by Death
  • "Murder by Death" is a crime film directed by Robert Moore and starring Niv , James Coco , Peter Sellers and others. It was released in the United States on June 23, 1976   .
    The film tells the story of five world-renowned detectives who were invited to a mysterious banquet at a castle at the same time, but the host did not appear, but a series of murders happened   .

    Details

    • Release date June 23, 1976
    • Filming locations Oakley Court, Windsor Road, Oakley Green, Windsor, Berkshire, England, UK
    • Production companies Columbia Pictures, Rastar Pictures

    Box office

    Gross worldwide

    $38,200

    Movie reviews

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    • By Eleanora 2022-03-25 09:01:14

      a record

      Strange Banquet is a very good movie. If it is a spoiler in one sentence, it is a spoof or satire of a detective film or a classic in a detective novel or a comedy film with a bad cliché. The film tells the story of five world-renowned detectives who are invited to a mysterious banquet in an ancient castle at the same time, but the host of the banquet did not appear, but a series of murders occurred. I checked the wiki, and with the help of the bullet screen, I think that the prototype of Wang...

    • By Toby 2022-03-25 09:01:14

      "Strange Banquet" 2017.08.20

      'Spoof, grotesque', it feels super like a "Scream", with detectives as spoof objects, and five famous detectives are spoofed in the play. Too bad I've only heard of Sherlock Holmes.
      It's been said that it's like "Scream", I don't need to introduce you to know the urination of this film. But if you are not familiar with the five detectives, there are too many memes that you don't know it's meme. Well, this is a comedy drama. At the end, the director spit out a groove through the mouth of...

    • By Houston 2022-03-25 09:01:14

      a few questions

      Just watched the entire movie and felt that some parts of the movie seemed to give some hints. However, I didn't fully understand it, so I recorded it first, and I have the opportunity to look at it later.

      First, is the housekeeper dead?

      Second, what happened to the detective who came back before 12 o'clock and was the last detective closest to the answer before returning to the room? How did he know that Shuang's daughter was ugly?

      Third, is the scorpion...

    • By Candace 2022-03-24 09:02:51

      In fact, the director has already told you the answer!

      On the one hand, I admire the moviegoers who can write a lot of reasoning. On the other hand, I am speechless: Didn't the director tell you the answer? !
      In fact, looking at the overall situation, it is not difficult to find that all the questions are actually focused on three people: Mr. Shuang, the housekeeper, and the cook.
           The first thing we want to talk about is the relationship between Mr. Shuang and the cook, which is the most quintessential part of this film. We were...

    • By Mossie 2022-03-24 09:02:51

      A suspenseful comedy

      Undoubtedly, Strange Banquet is a movie with a very high production cost. Many British, American, and French film and television stars have appeared on the camera (Harry Potter's McGonagall Professor Maggie Smith, the prosecution witness's lawyer nanny.... ...), and the sets and special effects in the film were expensive in those days.
         But in my opinion the value of the movie itself is not as high as imagined.
         The theme of the movie is not obvious. Many people enjoy this movie...

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    • By Delmer 2023-09-24 00:20:13

      An extremely wonderful old-fashioned detective movie, with full marks for the suspense part, and also a high-level brawl spoof movie, readers who like mystery novels can find it more interesting. Five detectives from detective literature are forced into a movie to investigate a bizarre murder. At the end, there was an unexpected reversal, and on behalf of the readers, the famous detective literature was ridiculed over and over again, which was extremely...

    • By Ofelia 2023-03-02 07:46:54

      From the very beginning, the film builds a bizarre atmosphere: a blind housekeeper, a deaf cook, a woman's screaming doorbell, a barking cat, a weird room, and more. The formation of group portraits with different ghosts is an essential element of secret room inference dramas. Considering the drama of Hollywood, the compactness of the film plot and the density of events are slightly deliberate (similar Bameitu should be slightly more reasonable and softer). But the plot and humorous lines have...

    • By Ivah 2023-01-10 20:09:40

      The wiki says that Holmes and Watson also made a scene, but they were cut out. The reasoning is not strong, but the spoof is very...

    • By Mavis 2022-12-25 00:22:31

      The butler and cook part was a lot of fun. When I saw it, the door rattled, scaring me to death. One episode of Conan was like this (219 The Called Detective! Kudo Shinichi vs Kaito Kid) It wasn't scary but felt panic. It should be satirizing detective novels and deceiving readers!...

    • By Sarai 2022-04-24 07:01:17

      The cards are like onions, layer after...

    Movie plot

    Lionel Twain ( Truman Capote ) , the owner of the mysterious mansion, invited five world-renowned detectives to the castle to attend a mysterious dinner. They are New York amateur detective Dick Charleston ( Niv ) , Belgian detective Milo Biel ( James Coco ) , Shanghai inspector Sidney Wang ( Peter Sellers ) , and British Jessica Mapo. Miss Er ( played by Elizabeth Lanchester Sullivan ) and Sam Diamond ( played by Peter Falk ) from San...
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    Movie quotes

    • Doctor Watson: [cutting-room floor-scene on the foggy road, near the movie's end; as the Wangs are departing from Twain Manor, they pass a vintage car heading up TO the Manor. The other car is driven by Holmes and Watson] ... I say, old boy! Could you possibly give us directions to - Hello, it's Mr. Sidney Wang!

      Sherlock Holmes: [smoking his famous pipe] Greetings, Mr. Wang.

      Sidney Wang: Ah, greetings to you as well! You have something to ask, I believe. Directions to where?

      Doctor Watson: Ah, yes! We've been "cordially invited to dinner and a murder," by a Mr. Lionel Twain.

      Willie Wang: *Lionel Twain?* Listen, you guys don't wanna...!

      Sidney Wang: [cutting him off] Never mind him, please. Here - you go up this road, past bridge to "22 Twain." No can miss it.

      Doctor Watson: Ever so much obliged. Good day, then!

      [he and Holmes drive off]

      Willie Wang: I don't get it, Pop! Why didn't you just tell them it was all a ripoff?

      Sidney Wang: Ah, let idiots find out for themselves! Drive, please.

    • Willie Wang: I don't get it, Pop. Who would hire a blind butler?

      Sidney Wang: Very clever. How he know how much he get paid?

    • Sidney Wang: [reading note from mute cook] I think butler is dead! My name is Yetta, I don't work Thursdays.

      Dora Charleston: Ask her if she sleeps in, Dickie!