Murder By Death (1976)

 Happy Birthday, Peter Falk! The late actor was born today in 1927. While he might be most remembered on the small screen as the detective Columbo, he was also very accomplished on the big screen as well. His most notable role was as the Narrating Grandfather in the classic film adaptation of The Princess Bride, but that one gets all the glory. Instead, I highly recommend the cult classic murder mystery comedy Murder By Death. If you have never watched this film, you are missing out. It's packed with big name stars and is a forerunner to the later cult classic murder mystery comedy, Clue. (As a matter of fact, the recently deceased Eileen Brennan stars in both films) Falk plays hardboiled detective Sam Diamond, a take on the old Philip Marlowe style detective. Seriously, go watch this movie!

Alternate Dumb Movie Pick - Clint Eastwood ran out of movies about nameless cowboys, well armed cops, and orangutangs so he made Firefox, based on a book of the same name, that tells the tale of a spy trying to steal the prototype Russian plane designated MiG-31. It was a fictionalized plane but the real MiG-31 had it's first flight on September 16, 1975.

Alternate Completely Out There Pick - Jerk of the Day Tomás de Torquemada died in 1498. Even if you don't know who that is, the name is probably familiar. He first the first Grand Inquisitor of the Spanish Inquisition. Let us remember him by watching Mel Brooks mock him in History of the World Part I.