Deathtrap (Blu-ray) PG
The trap is set... For a wickedly funny who'll-do-it.
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Blu-ray BD-R Details
- ORIGINAL ASPECT RATIO - 1.85:1
- Rated: PG
- Run Time: 1 hours, 56 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: November 20, 2012
- Originally Released: 1982
- Label: Warner Archive Collection (MOD)
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Michael Caine, Christopher Reeve & Dyan Cannon | |
Performer: | Irene Worth, Henry Jones & Joe Silver | |
Directed by | Sidney Lumet | |
Screenwriting by | Jay Presson Allen | |
Composition by | Johnny Mandel | |
Story by | Ira Levin | |
Produced by | Burtt Harris | |
Director of Photography: | Andrzej Bartkowiak | |
Executive Production by | Jay Presson Allen |
Entertainment Reviews:
...A stylish, sneaky, cat-and-mouse movie....The cast of DEATHTRAP meets the demands of the material with delightful enthusiasm and ease...
New York Times
Deathtrap seems an unusually skillful and satisfying example of devious entertainment. It offers as much double-crossing amusement as one can reasonably expect from a theatrical murder mystery.
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Washington Post
Rating: 4/5 --
Offbeat parlor mystery that still holds up pretty well.
eFilmCritic.com
Deathtrap, like many intricate stage thrillers, reveals its artifice on the screen but remains crackling good fun.
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Associated Press
Deathtrap is a literate, swiftly paced and engrossing screen adaptation of Ira Levin's Broadway smash.
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Spirituality and Practice
Rating: 4/5 --
Apesar do desfecho decepcionante, sobrevive graças às boas reviravoltas, à direção intrigante de Lumet e às formidáveis atuações de Caine e Reeve.
Cinema em Cena
Sidney Lumet's adaptation is flat, linear, and without the depth that this text required. [Full Review in Spanish]
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El Pais (Spain)
Description by OLDIES.com:
If you were a famed mystery playwright with a devastating string of recent flops, what would you do for a can't-miss thriller script? Beg for it? Pay for it? Or would you kill for it? You would if you were Sidney Bruhl, the leading character in Ira Levin's dazzlingly funny, deliciously scary, Broadway-smash-turned-movie-hit Deathtrap. Michael Caine starts as Bruhl and Christopher Reeve stars as Bruhl's one-time student, who's written a play so flawless "even a gifted director couldn't ruin it" ...and who requests Bruhl's production help. And Dyan Cannon is Bruhl's loving wife, who doesn't want the student helped to an early grave. Sydney Lumet directs Deathtrap's hairpin twists with such drop-dead wit and delightful dread that you'll stop laughing only long enough to gasp in surprise.
Product Description:
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.
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- Sales Rank: 4,202
- UPC: 883316610022
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