What is Murder By Death / The Cheap Detective about?

Double Feature! MURDER BY DEATH, 1976, 94 min. Dir. Robert Moore. Eccentric millionaire Truman Capote invites six of the world’s greatest detectives to his mansion for “dinner and a murder.” When the sleuths (Peter Sellers, David Niven, Maggie Smith, James Coco, Peter Falk and Elsa Lanchester) arrive and discover that the host is the apparent victim, they attempt to solve the puzzle and survive the evening themselves. With Alec Guinness. THE CHEAP DETECTIVE, 1978, 92 min. Dir. Robert Moore. In this follow-up to MURDER BY DEATH, Peter Falk stars as Lou Peckinpaugh, a penny-pinching private eye trying to stay ahead of the police as he tracks down his partner’s killer and some missing diamonds in 1940s San Francisco.

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What is Murder By Death / The Cheap Detective about?: Double Feature! MURDER BY DEATH, 1976, 94 min. Dir. Robert Moore. Eccentric millionaire Truman Capote invites six of the world’s greatest detectives to his mansion for “dinner and a murder.” When the sleuths (Peter Sellers, David Niven, Maggie Smith, James Coco, Peter Falk and Elsa Lanchester) arrive and discover that the host is the apparent victim, they attempt to solve the puzzle and survive the evening themselves. With Alec Guinness.

THE CHEAP DETECTIVE, 1978, 92 min. Dir. Robert Moore. In this follow-up to MURDER BY DEATH, Peter Falk stars as Lou Peckinpaugh, a penny-pinching private eye trying to stay ahead of the police as he tracks down his partner’s killer and some missing diamonds in 1940s San Francisco.