Lionel Twain invites the world's five greatest detectives to a 'dinner and murder'. Included are a blind butler, a deaf-mute maid, screams, spinning rooms, secret passages, false identities and more plot turns and twists than are decently allowed.
Truman Capote
as Lionel Twain
Alec Guinness
as Butler Jamesir Bensonmum
Peter Sellers
as Sidney Wang
David Niven
as Dick Charleston
Maggie Smith
as Dora Charleston
James Coco
as Milo Perrier
Peter Falk
as Sam Diamond
Eileen Brennan
as Tess Skeffington
Elsa Lanchester
as Jessica Marbles
Estelle Winwood
as Nurse Withers
Nancy Walker
as Kitchen Maid Yetta
James Cromwell
as Marcel Cassette