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Quick Info

Rating

7.2/10

Release1976

Runtime1h 34m

StatusReleased

BudgetN/A

Revenue$32,511,047

Production

Rastar Productions

Movie

Murder by Death

1976

1h 34m

7.2

Comedy

Crime

Mystery

Thriller

Synopsis

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.

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