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...SIDNEY BRUHL lives in the wilds of East Hampton with his dotty wife Myra and her brown Mercedes. She's very rich; he's written four Broadway flops. She screams when the telephone rings; he's snide, dry, urbane and British. She has a weak heart; he collects antique instruments of destruction. And they don't get along too well either. It all seems so obvious...
...often Deathtrap looks like a film version of a staged performance, so self-consciously theatrical is Lumet's direction. The play was so successful in the theatre, that Lumet can't really be blamed for borrowing some of its techniques for his film. The Bruhl's Hampton home looks lovely with its woodsy interior but it also looks stagey. Doors, windows and a spiral staircase are too neatly arranged around the sides of the set; by shooting rooms up from the floor and down from the ceiling Lumet adds a closed-in effect that verges on the claustrophobic. This...
...longer write a successful mystery play, but Sidney Bruhl (Michael Caine) can still stage one. In his own living room. For real. With his wife's inheritance at stake. His plot has wit and intricacy going for it-so much so that it cannot be described, lest the fun be spoiled for those who have not yet seen Ira Levin's original Broadway hit. Director Sidney Lumet has, perhaps, permitted the volume to be turned up too high, with the result that Caine and the other principals, Christopher Reeve and Dyan Cannon, sometimes seem screechy when they reach...
...role in the film version of Ira Levin's Deathtrap, Actor Michael Caine is dressed to kill in a $2,500 Sulka robe and a pair of $300 silk Gucci pajamas. Caine, 47, plays Sidney Bruhl, a writer of stage thrillers who has not had a Broadway hit in years. Then a former student of his, played by Christopher Reeve, 28, turns up at his converted windmill in East Hampton, N.Y., with a murderously good play. In a plot with more twists than a Chubby Checker concert, Bruhl conspires with his wife (Dyan Cannon) to take over the manuscript...
...ardent acolyte and student in Bruhl's writing seminar has just sent him a murder mystery that makes Bruhl greedy with envy. To the young man, Clifford Anderson (Victor Garber), Bruhl proffers collaboration, an older man's sophisticated nurture of a sapling script. Refused. To his staunchly supportive wife Myra (Marian Seldes), Bruhl speculates about taking Anderson's life, swiping the sole copy of the manuscript and presenting...