Product: Murder by Death (1976)
Rating: 5.0
A full rounded comedy to watch!
Robert Moore at the camera, Neil Simon as screenwriter and a set of formidable and golden actors make of this movie an enjoyable film to watch.This sardonic black comedy begins when the best five detectives of the world are invited apparently for a dinner by an eccentric millionaire Lionel Twain (Truman Capote) with just a purpose: to demonstrate to all of them he is the number one; announcing that exactly at midnight there will be murder.But the entire script is filled of funny and smart observations. Peter Sellers play the role of Wang - steals the show- (the famous detective) , Alec Guinness is the blind butler, Peter Falk is absorbing as the vulgar Sam Diamond (in a visible parody of Bogart in Casablanca), David Niven (Dick Charleston) and Maggie Smith make a real tour de force with this intelligent satire in which we will watch to Wang, Sherlock Holmes, Columbus, Hercules Poirot, and Mrs. Marble.A true and brilliant comedy, and one of the three highest peaks of the genre in this decade (The prisoner of the Second avenue and Love and Death would be the other two, to my mind).