Deathtrap

Deathtrap
by Sidney Lumet

Deathtrap
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Actor: Christopher Reeve, Dyan Cannon, Henry Jones, Irene Worth, Michael Caine
Director: Sidney Lumet
Brand: Warner Brothers
Cinematographer: Andrzej Bartkowiak
Editor: Jack Fitzstephens
Producer: Alfred De Liagre Jr.
Producer: Burtt Harris
Producer: Jay Presson Allen
Writer: Jay Presson Allen
Writer: Ira Levin
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0
Format: Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: Pan & Scan, 1.33:1
Running Time: 116 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1999-07-27
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Warner Home Video

DVD Reviews of Deathtrap

DVD Review: Deathtrap--Great Movie!
Summary: 5 Stars

Great movie! Full of twists & turns.

Product was better than advertised and came much sooner than promised.

DVD Review: NOT your predictable murder-mystery.
Summary: 5 Stars

This is definitely the choice when you want an entertaining, non-violent [well, except for a murder, bondage, and an impressive collection of medieval weapons ..... okay, a LITTLE violent], movie that you do not want to miss a frame.
The majority of the movie is filmed on one set - the interior of a refurbished/restored windmill. Limited, unimaginative, right? Wrong! The simple murder-your-rich-wife-for-the-money plot turns, winds and flips into cunning complexity. Michael Caine masters his character. The interaction between Christopher Reeve and Caine is brilliant. Dyan Cannon portrays the meek, unassuming wife well, but try as I might, I could not empathize long for her. The storyline swept me into the next scene and the next and the next. Irene Worth is delightful as the quirky, psychic neighbor.

DVD Review: 3 stars out of 4
Summary: 4 Stars

The Bottom Line:

A stylish and inventive thriller, Deathtrap is hurt by a terrible performance by Dyan Cannon as Michael Caine's wife and an ending that doesn't quite work, but is still definitely worth watching for its fun twists and turns.

DVD Review: One of my favorite movies
Summary: 5 Stars

When I have guests, this is a "go to" movie to share. It is played in a stage style, and for a who-done-it, it keeps you guessing until the end.

DVD Review: A WICKEDLY FUNNY WHO'LL-DO-IT.
Summary: 5 Stars

"What's the point of owning a mace, if you don't use it?" - playwright Sidney Bruhl (Michael Caine) in DEATHTRAP

...You'll stop laughing only long enough to gasp in surprise. The stars are terrific. The atmosphere is thick. The sets are marvelous. The score is wonderful and story is to die for!

The only thing missing is a special edition (that is anamorphic widescreen) with a running commentary from surviving director and stars - Lumet, Caine and Cannon.

DEATHTRAP, a wickedly, stylish, sneaky, cat-and-mouse movie, is a terrific companion piece for anyone who loved the "original version" of SLEUTH.

See it... applaud it... adore it! It is everything you heard and much more.

Description of Deathtrap

Ira Levin's cat-and-mouse Broadway suspense smash about a playwright's deadly game of murder gets diabolically comic screen treatment.
Man (Christopher Reeve) writes play. Older washed-up hack (the blissfully hammy Michael Caine) covets play. A meeting is arranged in a remote cabin festooned with various sharp objects. To reveal anything more would serve to ruin one of the most wondrously convoluted plots of the '80s and '90s. It's a cerebrum-bending romp from start to finish, with marvelously airtight plotting that simultaneously parodies and honors its genre, and two vibrant, continuously morphing lead performances (pity poor Dyan Cannon's weak-link wife, though, who gets stuck with the shrillest character and worst dialogue of the lot). Based on Ira Levin's long-running play, this adaptation's rhythm is thrown off a bit by director Sidney Lumet's somewhat misguided attempts to open it up for the screen, but the script and performers are so playfully adept that, as one of the characters says, "even a gifted director (which Lumet most certainly is, based on evidence such as Dog Day Afternoon and Network) couldn't hurt it." Delirious, nasty fun that's twistier than a corkscrew and loaded with enough red herrings to keep Flipper fed for a year. --Andrew Wright

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