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Author Topic: Murder By Death (1976) Evans A Criswell Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1579 From: Huntsville, AL, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 01-21-2005 08:57 PM                        A friend was over at my house a few nights ago and this move was on TCM. We watched about 10 minutes of the middle of the movie and found it bizarre and hilarious. I told him, "I don't want to see any more of this. I want to get the DVD and watch it from beginning to end". So I found the DVD and he came over and we watched it last night. The DVD transfer looks very good. It's 16:9 anamorphic (1.85:1 movie). I noticed a slight bit of damage to the print (specks), but for a 1976 movie, it looked terrific on my 57 inch widescreen set. I wish I could find a copy of the script for this movie because there were a lot of great lines. I can't believe I'd never heard of this movie before. Both of us loved it! Very highly recommended if you've never seen it. Some critics didn't give it very high marks, but I found it very enjoyable and anticipate showing it to different people eventually.  |  IP: Logged Bruce McGee Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1776 From: Asheville, NC USA... Nowhere in Particular. Registered: Aug 1999 posted 01-23-2005 09:56 AM                     "He didn't have any nuts." "The man in the shop?" "That is why I took the rasins!" Fun stuff. I used to run the TV version of this film on TV after having run it in a theatre in 1976. The TV version has several additional scenes that were not in the original. Most of these are in the sequences where all the detectives are arriving at 22 Twain's house.  |  IP: Logged Bill Gabel Film God Posts: 3873 From: Technicolor / Postworks NY, USA Registered: Jan 2002 posted 02-08-2005 02:00 PM                     Neil Simon and the director Robert Moore did another film two years later called "The Cheap Detective" (1978). It was a parody of "The Maltese Falcon" , "Casablanca" and the noir type films. Not as good as "Murder By Death".  |  IP: Logged

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