Murder in Music City
1979, English. Directed by Leo Penn.
Sonny Bono buys a Nashville detective agency for a song. But someone's out to cancel his contract — permanently!
A brash songwriter who buys a detective agency as a tax shelter finds himself and his photographer's model bride involved in a puzzling murder, when a dead body turns up in their honeymoon suite, and on a trail that leads them to Nashville.
- Runtime
- 1h 35m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- English
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- Released
- 16 January 1979
- Country
- United States of America
- Written by
- Ernest Frankel, Jimmy Sangster
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Murder in Music City runs 95 minutes (1h 35m).
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Murder in Music City isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 16 January 1979. (Checked 13 November 2026.)
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Who directed Murder in Music City?
Murder in Music City (1979) was directed by Leo Penn and stars Sonny Bono, Lee Purcell, Lucille Benson.