So I was holding my son yesterday, feeding him formula, whilest channel surfing and came across this old classic film Murder by Death – a Peter Sellers classic. Besides this movie being hysterical I was blown away by the cast. Truman Capote, Peter Faulk, Peter Sellers, David Niven and of course Alec Guinness who brilliantly plays a blind butler. The movie was made before the Clue film, also amusing but a bit more forced, and to me is still just as funny as when it was first released.

The entire point to the story, as stated by IMDB, is “Millionnaire Lionel Twain invites the five most brilliant private eyes to a dinner – and a murder. So, Sidney Wang from China, Dick Charleston from New York, Jessica Marbles from England, Milo Perrier from Belgium and Sam Diamond from San Francisco arrive at the remote castle. They are welcomed by Jamesir Bemsonmam, the blind butler. At nine, a dinner is supposed to be served. The five private eyes and their companionships are in the dining room, wondering what everything is about. Suddenly, Lionel Twain appears and lets the private eyes in on his plan: Exactly at midnight, a murder is going to take place. And he offers a million dollars to the one who can solve the murder. Then he disappears. Before long, a problem arises: The butler is found dead – and it’s long before midnight! Will the five most brilliant minds of our time be able to see through the elaborate set-up staged by a criminal mastermind?” Good stuff.