Murder by Death (1976)

[Eggs Mayonnaise]

It's on Turner Classic Movies right now. See Alec Guinness a year before Star Wars, playing a bumbling blind butler. Also a younger James Cromwell as a goofy Belgian chauffeur with only a few lines.

Plus Peter Sellers, Peter Falk, Maggie Smith, David Niven, Elsa Lanchester, Estelle Winwood, James Coco, Eileen Brennan...and Truman Capote! All in service to a silly Neil Simon spoof of classic murder mysteries/serials, several years before the Zuckers came up with Airplane!.

Fun Fact: The screaming doorbell is actually one of Fay Wray's screams from King Kong.

 

[Cassie]

I'LL WATCH IT LATER.

 

[Fuddlemiff]

Great cast. I'll watch it later too... whenever it's on tv next.

 

[CaptainWacky]

Sounds like something my mum would watch (AND MAYBE ME.)

 

[Blindgroping]

Oh, this has been a favorite movie for ages!!

AGES I TELL YOU!!!

An excellent silly movie!

If you liked Clue, this is better!!

 

[Ishcabittle]

I first saw this flick in '81, when I was five - it was in a bundle of movies we pirated on our crazy ass VHS system (my dad bought two so we could dub, fucking unheard of).

The belgian cat was awesome, always noshing on chocolate. Sellers as a chinaman didn't sit right with me even then.