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Murder by Death (1976)
★ 7.2 · 887 ratings on TMDB
By the time the world's greatest detectives figure out whodunnit... you could die laughing!
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.
DirectorRobert Moore
The emergence reading
Murder by Death keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing mystery, satire, meta, culture, tradition.
zero-distanceUSmysterysatiremetaculturetradition
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