怪宴

神秘宅邸的主人莱昂内尔·吐温（杜鲁门·卡波特 Truman Capote饰）邀请五位世界著名的侦探来到古堡出席一场神秘的晚宴。他们分别是纽约业余侦探迪克·查尔斯顿（大卫·尼文 David Niven饰），比利时侦探米洛·比埃尔（詹姆斯·可可 James Coco饰），上海检查员西德尼·王（彼得·塞勒斯 Peter Sellers饰），英国人杰西卡·马波尔（爱尔莎·兰切斯特 Elsa Lanchester饰）小姐和来自旧金山的萨姆·戴蒙德（彼得·法尔克 Peter Falk饰）。没人知道这次凶险异常的邀约背后到底隐藏着什么样的杀机，但这五位侦探们还是各自带上一位亲属或朋友来到了这座神秘的宅邸。然而莱昂内尔并没有现身，等待他们的是一连串被精心设计过的谋杀事件。 　　杜鲁门·卡波特凭借本片荣获1977年第34届金球奖电影类-最佳新男演员提名。Despite not knowing him, the world's most famous detectives can't pass up the offer of a "dinner and murder" invitation from wealthy Lionel Twain. Each has no idea until their arrival at Two Two Twain who else will be in attendance. Those detectives are: amateur sleuths and New York socialites Dick and Dora Charleston, accompanied by their pet terrier, Myron; Belgian detective Monsieur Milo Perrier, accompanied by his chauffeur, Marcel; Shanghainese Inspector Sidney Wang, accompanied by his Japanese adopted son, Willie Wang; frumpish Brit Miss Jessica Marbles, accompanied by her invalid nurse, Miss Withers; and San Francisco gumshoe Sam Diamond, accompanied by his femme fatale sidekick, Tess Skeffington. The dinner part of the invitation runs into problems due to the non-communication between Twain's blind butler, Jamesir Bensonmum, and Twain's new deaf-mute and non-Anglophone cook, Yetta. On the murder side, the guests initially believe Twain will try to kill each of them. However, Twain eventually announces his rationale for the gathering: that one of the people at the dinner table will be murdered before midnight, and that Twain will consider himself the greatest detective if his guests, who are now trapped in the house until dawn, cannot figure out who committed the murder, that person also at the dinner table. If one does figure out who committed the crime, he/she will be the recipient of $1 million and the exclusive rights to the story. So the guests anxiously await the stroke of midnight, with those still alive after that time trying to figure out both motive and the opportunity to murder before the rise of dawn and before the murderer has the opportunity to strike again on one or all of them.