Murder By Death
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Director: Robert Moore
1976 / 95min / 35mm
Neil Simon’s comprehensive spoof of murder mystery tropes, from Agatha Christie potboilers to hard-boiled gumshoes to Charlie Chan serials, finds Coco sharing the bill with a baffling cast that includes Peter Sellers, Elsa “Bride of Frankenstein” Lanchester, Peter Falk, Truman Capote, and more. A “dinner and a murder” invitation sent to five world-famous detectives turns into a smorgasbord of inventive attempts on their lives in his miraculous mechanized mansion. Amidst so many luminaries, Coco still stands out with his “very, very funny… somewhat prissy take-off on Hercule Poirot” (The New York Times).
Introduction from Jason Simos of the Peter Sellers Appreciation Society on Friday, January 26th and Saturday, January 27th
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