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- From: sdavido@opie.bgsu.edu
- Subject: Re: Name that Peter Falk movie (second try)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.180331.1@opie.bgsu.edu>
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 22:03:31 GMT
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- In article <C1F05s.8su@sci.kun.nl>, grimbergen@macpost.kun.nl writes:
- > This question may not have reached the right people (I recently changed some
- > distribution options), so here it is again. Last week I ended up in a "name
- > that Peter Falk movie"-competition after a discussion on "The Princess Bride".
- > I lost and one of the reasons was that I couldn't remember a movie in which he
- > is invited (as Lt. Columbo), together with a bunch of other famous book-TV-
- > detectives to a castle or mansion. I remember Peter Sellers playing inspector
- > Clouseau, and a Miss Marple (not played by Margaret Rutherford) and a Hercule
- > Poirot (not played by Peter Ustinov). Maybe there was also a Philip Marlowe
- > and (this may be wishful thinking) the host of the party might be Christopher
- > Lee. Of course a murder is comitted and all detectives have different theories
- > about the murderer. Can anyone tell me the title of this movie??
- >
- > Reijer Grimbergen
- >
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- Sorry to let you down, but your remembery is way off.
- The movie is "Murder by Death," and Falk plays Sam Diamond, a Sam Spade parody.
- Peter Sellers plays a Charlie Chan parody, James Coco the Poirot parody, and
- the host was played by Truman Capote. And David Niven played a Nick Charles
- parody. A GREAT film.
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- -Solomon
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