Trappola mortale

Titolo originale: Deathtrap
Regia: Sidney Lumet |
Anno: 1982
Origine: United States of America |
Generi: Mistero Thriller Commedia Crime Dramma
Tag: murder | playwright |
Cast: Michael Caine | Christopher Reeve | Dyan Cannon | Irene Worth | Henry Jones | Joe Silver | Tony DiBenedetto | Al LeBreton | Francis B. Creamer Jr. | Stewart Klein | Jeffrey Lyons | Joel Siegel | Jenny Lumet | Jayne Heller | George Peck | Perry Rosen | Jon-Erik Hexum |

Un maturo commediografo in crisi (Caine) invita nella casa di campagna un brillante esordiente (Reeves), autore di un interessante copione. L'intento è quello di ucciderlo per sottrargli l'opera, ma la presenza della moglie e il legame che si stabilisce tra i due uomini producono più di un colpo di scena. Infatti ci scappa il morto, ma le cose in realtà non sono quello che sembrano...

Frasi

[last lines] Seymour Starger: Helga, baby, we got [...] D
Sidney Bruhl: What I should do is, beat the fat ba [...] D
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Sidney Bruhl: No blood on the carpet... ten points [...] D
Sidney Bruhl: I'll bury him in the yard. No, the v [...] D
Myra Bruhl: Well, have you thought about collabora [...] D
Sidney Bruhl: Oh, well. Nothing recedes like succe [...] D
Sidney Bruhl: Darling, though I might be capable o [...] D
Sidney Bruhl: What an extraordinary gift. I've alw [...] D
Sidney Bruhl: Clifford, I hate to ask this, but co [...] D
Sidney Bruhl: I wonder if it would not be... well, [...] D
Clifford Anderson: It has to be a playwright who w [...] D
Sidney Bruhl: I have a name and a reputation! Some [...] D
Clifford Anderson: Are you trying to say that you [...] D
Myra Bruhl: [screams] Sidney Bruhl: Every time I [...] D
Stewart Klein: Sidney Bruhl's new play, which open [...] D
Sidney Bruhl: This is Clifford Anderson, my secret [...] D
Myra Bruhl: Is it really that good? Sidney Bruhl: [...] D
[first lines] [the actor on stage delivers an uni [...] D
Sidney Bruhl: Every time I come in this bloody hou [...] D
Joel Siegel: Well, Sidney Bruhl's new whodunit Mur [...] D
Sidney Bruhl: Thank god it wasn't the fat one! D
Myra Bruhl: But won't he have another copy lying a [...] D
Helga Ten Dorp: In this room, there's pain. D
Sidney Bruhl: Why make it anywhere? Why make it? [...] D
Sidney Bruhl: Do a quick wash-up, get into bed, st [...] D
Clifford Anderson: Would you like me to explain? [...] D
Sidney Bruhl: Clifford, my dear, in your run-ins w [...] D
Clifford Anderson: I want a short cut, Sidney. And [...] D
Clifford Anderson: [with a gun pointed at him, whi [...] D