Deathtrap
(1982) DVD - Full Screen -
Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono Retail
Deathtrap (1982) DVD - Full Screen - Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono Retail
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Sidney
Lumet faithfully adapts Ira Levin's witty play of
intertwining intentions and duplicitous loyalties in his
stinging thriller DEATHTRAP. Set in the glittering
milieu of New York's Hamptons, the film stars Michael
Caine as Sidney Bruhl, a washed-up writer of Broadway
hit thrillers reeling from the unmitigated flop of his
most recent play.
Upon returning to his wife, Myra--a
heart-murmur-afflicted, pill-popping, and incredibly
wealthy hysterical played to great effect by Dyan
Cannon--Sidney reveals that to add to his chagrin, a
former student (Christopher Reeve) has sent him his
brilliant first play, entitled DEATHTRAP. Much to his
wife's dismay, Sidney concocts a mad scheme to lure the
young playwright out to East Hampton and then promptly
kill him in order to claim the play as his own. When the
wheels of Sidney's plan are set in motion, the three
characters launch into a tense, high-pitched game of
double entendres, hidden intentions, and unexpected
twists. The genre's typical propensity for reversals is
magnified tenfold as DEATHTRAP begins to feed upon its
own script, taking the characters on a blind ride
through sheer suspense and manipulation. Caine, Cannon,
and Reeve turn in bravado performances that inject the
already taught script with fine-tuned tension and raise
the viewer's suspension of disbelief to dizzying and
hilarious heights!!