With Michael Caine, Christopher Reeve, Dyan Cannon, Irene Worth. A Broadway playwright puts murder in his plan to take credit for a student's play.

Deathtrap (261) 7.0 1h 56min 1982 PG. Cafe Ziegfeld, West 45th Street (btw 7th and 8th Avenue) Manhattan. Critics gave the film mostly favorable reviews while noting its plot similarities to Caine's 1972 film Sleuth. Deathtrap is a 1982 American black comedy mystery film based on the 1978 play of the same name by Ira Levin.The film is directed by Sidney Lumet from a screenplay by Levin and Jay Presson Allen, and stars Michael Caine, Dyan Cannon and Christopher Reeve.Critics gave the film mostly favorable reviews, while noting its plot similarities to Caine's 1972 film Sleuth. Interiors of the house were filmed at the Pathé Studios in New York City's East Harlem. Deathtrap is a 1982 American thriller film based on Ira Levin's play of the same name, directed by Sidney Lumet from a screenplay by Levin and Jay Presson Allen, starring Michael Caine, Dyan Cannon and Christopher Reeve. Deathtrap is a 1982 film directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Michael Caine, Christopher Reeve, and Dyan Cannon.It was adapted from a 1978 play by Ira Levin, the author of Rosemary's Baby and The Stepford Wives.. Sidney Bruhl (Caine) is a well-known and formerly very successful Broadway playwright whose career is on the skids after a series of flops. Ira Levin's cat-and-mouse Broadway suspense smash about a playwright's deadly game of murder gets diabolically comic screen treatment. "Deathtrap" is a wonderful windup fiction machine with a few modest ambitions: It wants to mislead us at every turn, confound all our expectations, and provide at least one moment when we levitate from our seats and come down screaming. It succeeds, more or less. The writing was suspenseful especially for a film that was adapted from a play and filmed in 1982. Directed by Sidney Lumet. The stage scenes that bookend this movie were filmed at Music Box Theatre on 239 West 45th Street, New York City, where the "Deathtrap" stage play was still running. This location along with the Hotel Piccadilly was demolished in 1982 shortly after this film was made. It is now the site of the and the Marriott Marquis. The play's set was used for the two theatrical stage sequences in this movie.

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