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Murder by Death (Blu-ray)
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DVD Features:
- Rated: PG
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 34 minutes
- Video: Color
- Released: December 18, 2001
- Originally Released: 1976
- Label: Sony Pictures
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Packaging: Keep Case
- Aspect Ratio: Full Frame - 1.33
- Aspect Ratio: Letterbox - 1.85
- Aspect Ratio: Widescreen - 1.85
- Audio:
- Dolby Digital Mono - English
- Dolby Digital Mono - Spanish
- Additional Release Material:
- Trailers
- Interactive Features:
- Interactive Menus
- Scene Selection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Eileen Brennan, Truman Capote, James Coco, Peter Falk, Alec Guinness, Elsa Lanchester, David Niven, Peter Sellers, Maggie Smith, Nancy Walker & Estelle Winwood | |
| Performer: | James Cromwell & Richard Narita | |
| Directed by | Robert Moore | |
| Edited by | John F. Burnett | |
| Screenwriting by | Neil Simon | |
| Composition by | Dave Grusin | |
| Produced by | Ray Stark | |
| Director of Photography: | David M. Walsh |
Entertainment Reviews:
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83%
Rating: 4/5 --
Generally successful send-up of classic mysteries with a lame finale.
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
The fault lies solely with Neil Simon's inadequate.
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Los Angeles Free Press
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.
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Variety
So it all doesn't amount to much, and -- some knuckle-dragging 'he's gay'/'no I'm not' humor aside -- it's more Scooby Doo than Alfred Hitchcock Presents. Still, it's an amusing tea-cozy of a spoof with an enjoyable cast.
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DVDJournal.com
Rating: 3/4 --
This spoof of the great fictional-film detectives offers consistently funny scenes.
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TV Guide
Rating: 4/5 --
As light and insubstantial as one could wish.
New York Times
If parody, in this occasion, reaches a superior level, it is due to the effective cast and the irony with which the story is told. [Full Review in Spanish]
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El Pais (Spain)
Product Description:
Neil Simon's screenplay is a clever spoof on murder mysteries in which eccentric millionaire Lionel Twain (Truman Capote) invites the world's greatest detectives to his home and challenges them to solve the perfect murder. Among the sleuths that try to solve the case are Milo Perrier (James Coco), Sam Diamond (Peter Falk), Jessica Marbles (Elsa Lanchester), Dick and Dora Charleston (David Niven and Maggie Smith), and Sidney Wang (Peter Sellers), all of whom are easy-to-guess but altogether sharp parodies of beloved literary characters.
Plot Synopsis:
Playwright-screenwriter Neil Simon whipped up this frothy parody of several famous sleuths, who gather in an Agatha Christie-style setting.
A gaggle of brilliant detectives -- including Sam Diamond, Milo Perrier, Miss Marbles, Sidney Wang, and Dick and Dora Charleston -- attends a party hosted by the filthy-rich Lionel Twain in his dark mansion.
Soon it's clear Twain and his help have more on their minds than hospitality and hors d'oeuvres.
A gaggle of brilliant detectives -- including Sam Diamond, Milo Perrier, Miss Marbles, Sidney Wang, and Dick and Dora Charleston -- attends a party hosted by the filthy-rich Lionel Twain in his dark mansion.
Soon it's clear Twain and his help have more on their minds than hospitality and hors d'oeuvres.
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Production Notes:
- Color by Metrocolor.
- Additional cast: Richard Narita (Willie Wang) and Myron (Dog).
- Released theatrically in the USA June 24, 1976.
- The character sketches in the beginning of "Murder By Death" were drawn by "Addams Family" cartoonist Charles Addams.
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- Sales Rank: 226
- UPC: 043396079342
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