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- From: welter@fwi.uva.nl (Richard Welter)
- Subject: Re: Name that Peter Falk movie (second try)
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 10:10:54 GMT
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- grimbergen@macpost.kun.nl writes:
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- > 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??
-
- It's Murder by Death and it had all the famous screen detectives, except that
- their names had been slightly altered. So Miss Marple became Miss Marbles,
- Sam Spade became Sam Diamond, etc. Very funny movie.
-
- >Reijer Grimbergen
-
- Richard
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