"FRIDAY MOVIE SUGGESTION NIGHT PRESENTS: "MURDER BY DEATH"!

The Spoof of Spoofs!
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In the comical world of spoofs, "Murder by Death" is a murder mystery that has exasperated college film class professors with this warped tale written by Neil Simon and directed by Robert Moore. Wealthy and eccentric Lionel Twain (Truman Capote) invites five of society's most revered investigative minds to his spooky house with the following: Kooky husband-and-wife detective team Dick and Dora Charleston --ala Nick and Nora from "The Thin Man" (David Niven and Maggie Smith); Sidney Wang--ala Charlie Chan (Peter Sellers) is accompanied by his adopted Japanese son (Richard Narita)--this is killing me already just writing this!; Belgian, Milo Perrier (James Coco), is accompanied by his idiotic French assistant (James Cromwell); the elder Jessica Marbles (Elsa Lanchester) is along for the ride--pardon me--with her wheelchair-bound nurse (Estelle Winwood); a Bogart-like private eye Sam Diamond (Peter Falk) is here with his "dame" and loyal secretary, Tess Skeffington (Eileen Brennan); a blind, albeit, conscientious butler (Alec Guinness) rounds out this invitation list and you have a comic murder mystery of lunatic proportions. Yes, it's a screwball comedy, therefore I selected it! Need I say more? Oh, yeah. I better credit the Cast & Crew. Therefore...

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The Cast & Crew: Directed by Robert Moore and Written by Neil Simon; We have here: Eileen Brennan as Tess Skeffington; Truman Capote as Lionel Twain; James Coco as Milo Perrier' Peter Falk as Sam Diamond (Bwahaha!); Alec Guinness as Bensonmum; Elsa Lancaster as Jessica Marbles; David Niven as Dick Charleston; Maggie Smith is Dora Charleston; Peter Sellers is Sydney Wang; Richard Narita is Willie Wang; James Cromwell is Marcel; Nancy Walker is the Maid and last but not least, Estelle Winwood is the Nurse!

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ENJOY THIS LUNACY!