The world's greatest detectives have been invited to dinner. But when murder is on the menu, who will make it to dessert? You are cordially invited to join an all-star cast featuring Peter Sellers, David Niven, Peter Falk, James Coco, Elsa Lanchester, Maggie Smith, Alec Guinness, Eileen Brennan, Nancy Walker, James Cromwell and Estelle Winwood for Neil Simon's hilarious murder-mystery spoof Murder By Death. The isolated mansion of eccentric millionaire Lionel Twain (celebrated author Truman Capote in a Golden Globe(r) -nominated performance) is the setting for the twisted puzzler. Twain informshis guests that one of them will be murdered at the stroke of midnight. The pay-off: $1 million to whoever lives through the night. Murder By Death neatly lampoons both the mystery genre and the characterizations of these instantly recognizable gumshoes. Match wits with the super sleuths, but remember, you can't win if you end up dying from laughter! watch
Miss Monica Laughton, in her late sixties, lives in an old-fashioned house in a small town, dressing in the fashion of the 1900s and living in her own world of imaginary relatives and friends. Her eccentricity is accepted by the townsmen and no one pays any attention to the occasional funeral wreath hanging on the front door when one of her imaginary relatives passes on. The milkman tells the druggist there was another sad passing at Miss Monica's. The druggist remarks that she shouldn't be living alone, keeping all that money in the house. Frank and Lorna Bramwell, who have just arrived in town, overhear the conversation. They are desperate for money and plan to rob the old woman. But things don't go entirely to plan...Charles Bronson and Estelle Winwood guest star. watch
