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Originally Posted by
Ronald Epstein 
Take a look at this great poster for one of my favorite comedies,
Murder By Death....
And this is the best that Sony could do with that artwork. With all the comic greats that appear in this film, one would think this was a Peter Falk movie with a supporting cast:
I mean, what ghastly ugly artwork! (and by the way, Sony, we need a Blu-ray release on this one please)
While I would be shocked to see Sony release this themselves on BluRay, I would also welcome and immediately buy it, as I like it too.
SO MANY quotable lines:
"I wonder if you happened to have seen a little white - WANG!"
"22 Twain House."
"I can feel it in my buns."
"Buns! You have buns? Where...?"
"Jamesir Bensonmum? ...How odd!"
"That was my father's name... Howard Bensonmum."
"I've taken the liberty of putting you in the same wing as Mr. Wang."
"Oh isn't that nice, darling, we're in Wang's Wing!"
"My driver was injured by a falling gargoyle while standing outside your Chinese footprints..."
"Hungching Chucaudung woofung."
"Oh you remember, yes. You had Hung Ching Chew, and I had Cow Dung Wu Fung!"
"I don't think we have Nes c'est pas, Sir, just Hershey's."
"He's blind alright! Those were my funniest faces!"
"Mr. Diamond, you have a bullet hole in your back."
"You should see the other guy."
"Where's My Dickie?"
"There is nothing in my dish, but my dish."
"Ten people for dinner, and I'm serving them Hot Nothing!"
"I don't understand, why would anybody want to steal a dead naked body?"
"Oooh, that's tacky, that's
really tacky!"
"To me you look like Number Two, know what I mean?"
"My Poodle. Twain would come to France... to hunt poodles."
"The nurse is giving my palm the finger, dirty old broad!"
"Someone in the kitchen with dinner?"
"The Murder is - Good God, GAS!"
"I'm sorry, I can't help it, I'm old."
"_____________!!!!" (mute cook screaming)
It's additionally amazing that Sony would bypass the key art, as it was done by the legendary Charles Addams, of the original Addams Family, and that art was the focal point of the entire title sequence. Look at this, and Sony's covers for Funny Girl, Funny Lady, Godspell, etc and you get the feeling that the kid doing their covers was under the impression that everyone in the 60s and 70s was on drugs. I think he went on to do another internship in Fox's "art dept" doing covers and menus for 60s catalog titles like Star! and Hello, Dolly!
If the studio's marketing folks are so convinced that the covers need to scream from the shelf (of the ever dwindling retail stores) why not put that screaming stuff on the omnipresent O-cards, and leave the classic art on the covers and menus for us. Otherwise those O-cards, which currently duplicate exactly what's underneath them, are a total waste of paper.
Edited by NY2LA - 5/15/12 at 7:17pm
The DVD cover has a nice, gauzy, 30's-Art Deco feel. The original poster looks like it was a quickie job- the woman in the poster doesn't even look like Carole Lombard to me and the Powell likeness is a bit off as well.
