The world's five greatest detectives, modelled in Mad Magazine-style after famous fictional sleuths (Agatha Christie and Dashiell Hammett are overly in evidence, each contributing two to the quintet), are invited for dinner and murder at a spooky mansion in rural England. A mystery composed of all detectives and no suspects looks like a dead-end proposition from the first. And, while Neil Simon delivers his usual quota of all-purpose laugh lines, he has nothing to say specifically about the detective genre. In lampooning the silliest conventions of whodunits, Simon proves merely that he himself can be sillier still. Who would have doubted it? Starring Peter Sellers, Peter Falk, David Niven, Maggie Smith, Alec Guinness, and Truman Capote; directed by Robert Moore. (1976) — Duncan Shepherd
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