Lionel Twain
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Murder by Death
parisel — 12 years ago(May 18, 2013 08:42 PM)
Who is Lionel Twain supposed to be spoofing? Robert Osborne tells all the others, but with Lionel Twain, he just smiles and says, Well you get the drift, something like that.
I guess it's like looking at clouds. You see one thing and I see another. Peace. -
standardmetal — 12 years ago(May 18, 2013 10:13 PM)
If you've seen the film, Rene Clair's "And Then There Were None", you would expect it was a spoof of the person who invited all the guests to "Indian Island" and then killed them off one by one. I'm not about to reveal who it was and ruin that film for others who haven't yet seen it.
But speaking of the "actor" who played Lionel Twain", whatever you might think of Truman Capote as a writer, he was no actor.
He was perfect, therefore, as Lionel Twain! -
Savage_Dreams — 12 years ago(May 26, 2013 09:04 AM)
I don't know that Truman's character was spoofing anybody, but the joke I got out of him was the name.
Lionel twain = Lionel train ( Lionel being a popular toy train company)
The address on the house said 22 twain, it was read as two two twain, sounding like choo choo train. Not the most amazing joke, but it made me laugh.
maybe the train reference is alluding to the fact that everyone would be on the wrong track of who did it.