Deathtrap
Summary:
Sidney Lumet provides another of his film adaptations of Broadway successes -- in this case Ira Levin's 1978 clever Broadway murder mystery that starred John Wood in a triumphant turn as down-on-his-luck playwright Sidney Bruhl. Wood's brittle airiness is replaced in the film version by Michael Caine's smoldering bitterness. Sidney Bruhl is a successful writer of Broadway mys... Full Summary >>
Cast:
Michael Caine - (Sidney Bruhl)
Christopher Reeve - (Clifford Anderson)
Dyan Cannon - (Myra Bruhl)
Irene Worth - (Helga Ten Dorp)
Henry Jones - (Porter Milgrim)
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Review:
Sidney Lumet's cinematic adaptation of Ira Levin's Deathtrap is reminiscent of Sleuth. A great number of plot twists happen to very few characters in more or less a single location. Those that dislike the film will dismiss it as uncinematic, stagy, and talky. Those that admire Deathtrap will describe it as literate, claustrophobic, a... Continue >>
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