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The Great Masquerade (1974)

The Great Masquerade poster
Directed by
Alan Ormsby
Genre
crime, comedy
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 25m
Rating
3.6 of 10 from 8 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A detective boards a cruise ship and goes undercover in a beauty contest to investigate a string of murders. The film is a comedic mystery set on the high seas.

comicallightheartedwhimsicalcampyplayfulcheerfulunseriousquirky

What happens

The Great Masquerade (also known as Murder on the Emerald Seas and The AC/DC Caper) is a 1974 American mystery comedy film directed and co-written by Alan Ormsby, and stars Kaye Stevens, Roberts Blossom, Gay Perkins, Frank Logan, Robert Perault, Paul Cronin, and Anya Ormsby. The film's plot follows a detective who infiltrates a beauty contest aboard a cruise ship in order to solve a series of murders. It was shot in Miami, Florida, and was believed to be lost until circa 2014, when it was released on DVD by Vinegar Syndrome. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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