Murder By Death - (Movie Clip) Sniff Out The Chinaman

Murder By Death - (Original Trailer)

An all-star cast parodies famous detectives in the Neil Simon whodunit spoof Murder By Death (1976).

Crazies, The -- (Movie Clip) Knitting needle murder

A seemingly innocent grandmother fatally stabs a biohazard trooper with her knitting needle in this scene from George Romero's The Crazies (1973).

Perfect Strangers (1950) -- (Movie Clip) Swell Murder Case

Lena (Thelma Ritter) is thrilled at being chosen for the jury, and Teresa (Ginger Rogers), questioned by a secretary (Ezelle Poule), loses her determination to get out of it, early in Perfect Strangers, 1950.

Murder By Death (1976) -- (Movie Clip) Good God, What An Entrance!

A new phase in the ensemble dinner scene, Truman Capote as host Lionel Twain is a special effect unto himself, tangling with faux-famous detectives Elsa Lanchester, Peter Falk, David Niven, Maggie Smith, James Coco, Eileen Brennan, James Cromwell, Peter Sellers et al, in Murder By Death, 1976.

Murder By Death -- (Movie Clip) Not Finish Mushroom Story!

Scenes introducing Dick Charleson (David Niven) and wife Nora (Maggie Smith,) then Sidney Wang (Peter Sellers) and son (Richard Narita), summoned to a mysterious gathering, in Neil Simon's Murder By Death, 1976.

Murder! (1930) -- (Movie Clip) About Three Doors Down

Opening scenes, director Alfred Hitchcock in one of his earliest sound films, conveying the sense of not only an artist but also, perhaps, a comedian, at work, in Murder!, 1930, Diana Baring the apparent culprit.

Murder! (1930) -- (Movie Clip) From Sir John Himself!

Itinerant actors and witnesses Ted and Doucie (Edward Chapman, Phyllis Konstam) are bluffing when they tell their landlady they expect to be hired by Sir John (Herbert Marshall), stunned when he actually sends a message, as he begins his investigation, in Alfred Hitchcock's Murder!, 1930.

Murder! (1930) -- (Movie Clip) Rex v. Diana Baring

Director Alfred Hitchcock's elliptical coverage of the trial of distraught actress Nora Baring (playing "Diana" Baring), hero Herbert Marshall first seen as a juror, Esme Chaplin the prosecutor, Amy Brandon-Thomas for the defense, still early in Murder!, 1930.

Murder! (1930) -- (Movie Clip) Save Her Soul

Notable scene, often cited as the first in a sound film in which an actor's inner thoughts are expressed through voice-over, Sir John (Herbert Marshall) having doubts about that day's verdict, director Alfred Hitchcock also using a live orchestra off-camera, in Murder!, 1930.