Seeing Obi Wan Kenobi bumble around as a blind butler is perfect casting for me. I chuckled every time.

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All of the off color remarks about the chinaman by Peter Faulk's character are again not right for this day an age, but in vacuum and part of this they are pretty funny.

This is really funny. Like seriously funny.

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Man, Maggie Smith aka McGonagall actually could have been a looker in her younger years..

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Peter Sellers... Wong character... Not sure where to start. I went back and forth all movie. Yes it is funny, but it's also embracing terrible stereotypes and whitewashing etc.. But then they are making fun of Frenchies.. sorry Belgies.. and everyone else, but in the end I think I settled on it being just a little too offensive.

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I kept trying to figured out whodunit, but in the end I realized that was never the point of the movie.

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You ever have those moments were I remember a movie from when I was growing up, but I don't really remember it.. I thought this was going to be that movie, but it was not. Still trying to find this slap-stick-y murder mystery (I think) movie set in a country house with a bunch of stuff going on... that I actually thought was really funny.

Made a change at the last minute to watch some thing lighter and also shorter and I was not disappointed! It was great. Besides the cringe worthy stuff with Wang, it was a delight! Just fun from start to finish. It made me realize a few things.

I love Murder Mystery movies and now I am gonna try and watch all the ones I can! So if you know of any let me know.

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I want to write one! 

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I need to watch more older comedies, they might have some characters that don't translate, but they generate their humor from good writing (most of the time) and timing instead of sight gags and gross humor. This is not a slight against newer movies, because the good ones do this as well, just they don't have to depend on it. Also I am sure that time has been able to weed out the bad efforts and leave it easy for me to pick out the better ones.

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As a movie, the cast is great, the sets are solid, and the writing is sharp. A wonderful surprise on movie challenge.

So I wanted to know who exactly each character was suppose to be.. and found this pretty cool :

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Inspector Sidney Wang (Peter Sellers) is based on Earl Derr Biggers' Chinese police detective Charlie Chan and is appropriately accompanied by his adopted Japanese son Willie (Richard Narita). Wang wears elaborate Chinese costumes, and his comically broken English is criticized by Twain and others.

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Dick and Dora Charleston (David Niven and Maggie Smith) are polished, sophisticated society types modeled on Dashiell Hammett's characters Nick and Nora Charles from the Thin Man film series. The Charles' wire-haired terrier "Asta" is also lampooned, appearing here named "Myron".

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Milo Perrier (James Coco) is a take on Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot and arrives at the house with his heavily French-accented chauffeur Marcel Cassette (James Cromwell in his first feature film role). The demanding, portly Perrier is overly fond of food and appears annoyed that he must share a room with the lowly Marcel, although the two are later seen sharing not only a room but a bed, quibbling like a married couple. Perrier is repeatedly annoyed by being mistaken for a Frenchman as he is Belgian, saying "I am not a 'Frenchie'...I am a 'Belgie'."

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Sam Diamond (Peter Falk) parodies another Dashiell Hammett character, The Maltese Falcon's hardboiled Sam Spade. He is accompanied by his long-suffering, hard-boiled, sexy but needy secretary Tess Skeffington (Eileen Brennan), whom he continually denigrates and mistreats. Tess Skeffington's name is a riff on Spade's secretary Effie Perine.

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Jessica Marbles (Elsa Lanchester) parodies Christie's Miss Marple. In the film, Marbles appears as hearty, robust and tweed-clad, wheeling a frail, ancient-looking, seemingly senile companion—her ancient "nurse" Miss Withers (Estelle Winwood), for whom she is now caring—whom everyone initially assumes is Miss Marbles.

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Also apparently there is an additional scene that I didn't see, but had a cameo with Sherlock Holmes and Watson. I was curious why they were absent.

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