In the early 1970s, a large number of prominent directors found modest success with whodunnits with a starvet. In 1972 A year later, directed Herbert Ross The wicked clever "last of the spikes", " The mystery fueled by Anthony Perkins and Steven Sondheim, which includes the names of brands such as the Jameses Coburn, Dian Canon, Richard Benjamin, Raquel Welch and Jameseims Mason. Then in 1974, the film movements received a double dose of Agatha Christie with The killing of Sidney Lumme of Express Orient"(Starring are John Connery, Lauren Bacal, Ingrid Bergman, Albert Feni and Vanessa Redgrave among a lot Others) and "And then there were no" by Peter Collinson (with Richard Atenborough, Oliver Reid, Elke Sommer and Herbert Lom).

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There was no cultural development that led this sudden series of whodunnits; It was just a reminder that people wanted to watch a bunch of great actors to throw themselves in the same location where a foul was performed, and then try to make the killer's identity before the Master Skut collecting the pieces. This mini-restoration inspired other writers to enter the Whodunnit party. IRA Levin surpassed all her peers with her involved in the 1978 Deathtrap (which became a very good film directed by Lummet, starring Caine and Christopher Reeve), while the OEO camp inappropriately parodies the genre Benji, in "Oh"! Heavenly dog.

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Camp's film was particularly rooted because, just four years earlier, Whodunnit was deceived in spectacular funny fashion by one of the leading comedy writers of his time. It appears as one of those Christie -inspired yarns, but moves the formula by trembling on Smut. For fans of the genre, this film is a must (except for a disturbing element). It's called "Death Murder".

After starting his beginning as a writer for the legendary (and still screaming funny) series of Variety of NBC "Your show show" in the 1950s, Neil Simon turned the play of the playwright in the 1960s and became a single-powered sensation by Broadway. His performances "Come to Lift their Horn", "Boss in the Park" and "The Strange couple" were long -lasting sections, and they were all turned into hits on a large screen. The fruitful Simon began skipping back and forth between the theater and the film, and, in the 1970s, threw part of his best work for the second medium. "The Child for a Heart Stroke" and "Goodbye Girl" are absolute classics, but in terms of pure laughter, the funniest thing he wrote during the decade was "murder after death".

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The premise is simple: billionaire Lionel Twain (Truman Capote) invites six of the world's largest shrinkage to solve murder in his palace - His It turns out murder (and his butler). Famous detectives include Sam Diamond (Peter Folk makes a riff to Dashiel Hammet Sam Spay of Maltese Sokol), SEC and Dora Charleston (David their and Maggie Smith as Nick of Hammet and Nora Charles of "The Thin Man"), Milo Perier (Jamesimes Coco as Agatha Christie Hercule Poar), Esseca Mermers (Elsa Lachester), Essi Charles Charl).

Although the direction of the veteran of the theater Robert Moore is a bit flat, writing and performances (including inspired turns by Alec Guinness and Nancy Walker) are actresses. Also, it is a damn good mystery in its core, which adds fun to Whodunnit.

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Unfortunately, "killing after death" is also very problematic because of the yellow face of Wang sellers. If you know the career of sellers well, you know that he often traded ethnic cartoons and - judging by this, "Revenge of the Pink Panther" and the abominable "Fiendish plot of D Fu Manchu" - he really wanted to suffocate from Asians. Please Feel free to disagree with me, but I think the "death murder" is the least indecent for selling the sellers' yellow face, as it is primarily a parody of the yellow face of Warner Hollande at Charlie Chan since the 1930s. You need to laugh at the terrible caricature.

If you can't look at past sellers of sellers, I fully understand. It is forthatic because the rest of the "death murder" is a neo -mutual stupidity. It is currently available to rent Prime Video and Apple TV.