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- From: dxg6476@hertz.njit.edu (David Gray)
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- Subject: Re: Name that Peter Falk movie (second try)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.133947.7274@njitgw.njit.edu>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 13:39:47 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
- >
-
- I think the movie you are referring to is "Murder by Death." If I'm not
- mistaken, it was the the last movie to star Truman Capote. I believe it also
- starred David Niven and Brenda Vacarro, but I'm not positive.
-
- Dave
-