In the script of the film “A Corpse with Dessert”, the ending was very different from the final cut. The most famous detective solved the case. But it was eventually changed at the request of the actors.
A corpse for dessert: a crime comedy delight
The film a corpse for dessert (murder by death in original version) released in 1976 is the first feature film by American director Robert Moore. It’s a whodunit present five famous private detectives, which cleverly bypasses the codes of detective novels. The cast includes Peter Falk, Maggie Smith, Truman Capote and Peter Sellers.
The tone?
Five of the best detectives in the world receive a weird dinner invitation. Your host, the mysterious millionaire Lionel Twain, awaits you in his mansion. He tells them that at midnight one of the guests will be killed. Even more disturbing, the detective who solves the murder will receive a million dollars.
In this savory game of massacres, director and screenwriter Neil Simon decompresses the codes of mystery. All the ropes are here. unmasked and mocked starting with the capilotrada deductions of the famous detectives. In addition, each of them is in itself a pastiche of such a prominent figure.
Sidney Wang (Peter Sellers) is a parody of Charlie Chan, a fictional Chinese-American detective created in 1925. Milo Perrier (James Coco) is a caricature of Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot. As for Jessica Marbles (Elsa Lanchester), parodies Miss MarpleAgatha Christie’s famous amateur detective.
Sherlock Holmes deprived of dessert
The end ofa corpse for dessert contains a twist imagined by the screenwriter ridicule investigators. And so to avenge the readers of detective novels, who cannot guess the end of the adventures because they lack crucial information. However, the film’s ending was almost very different.
In fact, Sherlock Holmes specialist author Ron Haydock stated in his book Deer Hunter! : Holmes and Watson on screen what an end with the famous detective and his partner, Dr. Watson, were featured in the script. They arrive at the villa and solve the mystery (without revealing the solution to the other investigators). However, with the other actors feeling offended by this ending, it eventually changed.
However, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson appear in an early version of the film (and are played by Keith McConnell and Richard Peel). is approx and the final original (present on the VHS of the film in particular), in which they arrive at the mansion while the other guests have already left. It is to be discovered in the original version below:
