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	Deathtrap (plot device) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Other stories have had villains use deathtraps as a means of testing the heroes or to distract them while the villain attends to other matters.
		Unlike many deathtrap scenarios, Bond is not left alone or unguarded, nor does he use a device or outside help to escape.
		Her creation was that of Tracy lying chained to an apartment floor underneath a refrigerator supported by two ice cakes which had a sharpened pole aimed at the detective's heart.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/d/de/deathtrap_(plot_device).htm (760 words)

	Community Theater of Terre Haute, Inc. Film Series History
		It has always been the responsibility of the film chairmen to see that the box office was staffed and that the film was in the theatre for the projectionist.
		Not once, but several times, the film was made for the then new wide screens, apparently not so labeled, and the CT screen was one of the older smaller ones.
		The current CT film committee was astonished and pleased to be the envy of the Notre Dame film series in being able to show 35mm films.
	www.ctth.org /history/film_series_history.htm (1246 words)

	DVD Review - Deathtrap (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Many films never get the attention they truly deserve and in retrospect Sidney Lumet’s "Deathtrap" seems to be such an example.
		The film is presented only in a fullscreen version on the disc.
		Although a lackluster release in terms of supplements or overall presentation, this film is a fabulous study for minimalist filmmaking.
	www.dvdreview.com /fullreviews/deathtrap.shtml (978 words)

	Film Threat - Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		When it was announced that a third "Cube" film would be made, a prequel in fact, most of the fans of the original had good reason to be skeptical given the abomination that was the second entry.
		However while the sections with Wynn are offbeat and miles away from the other films the sections dealing with Cassandra as she and other survivors make their way through the cube are extremely similar to the first two installments.
		Thankfully most of the film focuses upon Wynn and the more unoriginal segments from within the cube are complemented with innovative new set pieces involving acid, plague and death by sound.
	www.filmthreat.com /Reviews.asp?Id=7276 (531 words)

	Ira Levin
		In 1949, CBS ran a contest for original teleplays, and Levin's entry was called "The Old Woman." It told the story of an old lady's murder, as plotted by her nephew and nurse, but in the end the old lady outsmarts her would-be-killers.
		The 1975 film with Katharine Ross and Tina Louise was genuinely scary, while the 2004 film with Nicole Kidman and Matthew Broderick heightened more of the book's underlying humor.
		Deathtrap, a delightful comedy-thriller by Levin, ran four years on Broadway, and was crisply done for the cinema by Christopher Reeve and Michael Caine.
	www.nndb.com /people/424/000044292 (647 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Deathtrap at Epinions.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Deathtrap is a one room, two act film about a young writer who has just penned a one room, two act play called Deathtrap.
		People expect a play to minimize on set changes, but a 156 minutes film all on one set (except the first and last 5 minutes) is overdoing it.
		Cramped and restrained as the set is, it is only a minor distraction to a well written and well acted film that is well worth the bargain price it sells for.
	www.epinions.com /mvie-review-7186-1100C96-39EFC04E-prod1 (881 words)

	Watches-Hysterical (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		In the tradition of "Scary Movie," "Hysterical" parodies horror films such as "Dracula," "The Amityville Horror" and "The Exorcist," as well as classics like "Jaws" and "Raiders of the Lost Ark." In the spirit of "Airplane!," this fast-moving laugh fest also boasts plenty of physical comedy, farce, satire, Marx Brothers style-wordplay and outrageous musical numbers.
		My brother and I had a blast with the cast and crew, and they just had to get us in the movie...., So, we were put in the scene with John Lariquet(sp?) Where Richard Kiel comes out of the water and scares us all off the little tour boat.
		Oh the magic of film...., I was 20 years old at the time, and my brother is 17.
	www.minihttpserver.net /z_watches/A_deathtrap-B00000JGHT.htm (992 words)

	Deathtrap (1982)
		Make no mistake, this film is styled very much as the stage play would have been, with simple but effective sets that give the intimate feel of the stage.
		The clothes have dated and the playwrights in the film used typewriters (remember those?), but this is a snapshot of a story and so it's not so much of an issue.
		I tended to forgive a little with this film as it is the story that is meant to draw you in, not any sort of audio-visual extravaganza.
	www.michaeldvd.com.au /Reviews/Reviews.asp?ID=4061 (1813 words)

	DEATHTRAP 1982 Michael Caine, Christopher Reeve, Dyan Cannon
		The thin-lipped, unattractive Caine has - so far - kept his vow to never film a gay love scene again, and we can all be greatful for that as well.
		So the setup of Deathtrap is Dinner Theatre 101, and why it enjoyed such a long run on Broadway is anyone's guess.
		I thought I'd perk up after Christopher Reeve jumped through a French window covered in dirt and blood before trying to strangle Caine with a rusty chain, but it was a false alarm.
	www.outrate.net /outratedeathtrap.html (467 words)

	Reno News and Review Theater review - November 6, 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Deathtrap has two acts, five characters and only one set.
		There are so many plot twists in Deathtrap, a trip to the bathroom might ruin things for you.
		The Reno Film Festival serves up classic films, independent ones and a movie premiere this year.
	www.newsreview.com /issues/reno/2003-11-06/theater.asp (627 words)

	Amazon.com: Deathtrap.: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Deathtrap is a wonderful comic thriller, which I wish I had a chance to see play out on stage.
		"Deathtrap" is a roller-coaster ride that alternately amuses and terrifies, which is exactly what you want from a thriller.
		Deathtrap is so much fun to read, I would just love to see it done as a play.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0822202948?v=glance (1271 words)

	NewsRegister.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		I don't know which film Christopher Reeve was most proud of, but I can tell you which is the most fiendishly entertaining, and it isn't "Superman."
		In the 1982 comedy thriller "Deathtrap," Reeve is a young playwright who has written a murder mystery so brilliant, another playwright (Michael Caine) whose latest work has just been trashed by critics thinks it's worth killing for.
		"Deathtrap," a play which broke the record for Broadway's longest-running mystery/thriller, seems precisely like what it is: a filmed play.
	www.newsregister.com /news/story_print.cfm?story_no=185923 (149 words)

	DVD Booty - Deathtrap (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		I haven't seen Deathtrap as a play out on broadway, or more of a professional theatre, but 2 years ago, the high school I went to, did this story as its fall play.
		And here is the film verison starring Michael Caine, the late Christopher Reeve, and Dyan Cannon as the playwright's frusted wife, and he might be frusted to.
		The Michael Caine charecter actually causes his wife (Dyan Cannon) to have a fatal heart attack and then starts a gay relationship with the young student who writes the play and then both men end up killing each other and the next door neighbor takes the play and it becomes a smash.
	www.dvdbooty.com /dvds/deathtrap (227 words)

	Deathtrap (1984): Michael Caine, Christopher Reeve, Dyan Cannon
		It's hard not to draw immediate parallels between Deathtrap and Sleuth: two men alone in a house full of serious instruments of death; first one, then the other, grabs the upper hand in the conflict; cross, double-cross and triple-cross.
		But that film was saved by its stellar cast and Lumet clearly doesn't have any more of a feel for this sort of material than the screenwriter, as evidenced by the inability of both to broaden Ira Levin's original script out into a believable movie.
		Even the shots themselves are framed theatrically: the interior of the house is usually seen from one wide angle which emcompasses the living room and Sydney's study, just as you would see on stage.
	www.citizencaine.org /films/deathtrap.shtml (625 words)

	DEATHTRAP - Michael Caine Christopher Reeve Good Sidney Lumet Mystery Suspense Comedy 1982 - PG
		On the opening night of his fourth consecutive flop, he plots to murder a young protege (Christopher Reeve) and steal his sure fire hit play, "Deathtrap." The plan makes his wife (Dyan Cannon) a hysterical nervous wreck.
		Worth's dialogue is difficult to decipher through her thick accent, which is unfortunate because she has some good lines; when she tries to warn the Bruhls of impending doom but can't get his unlisted number from information:
		Film critic Jeffrey Lyons has a cameo as a theatre critic.
	www.movies2go.net /review/Deathtrap.html (217 words)

	Amazon.ca: DVD: Deathtrap (Full Screen) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		While the first act fares better than the second, the film is fun throughout, taking the audience on a ride of "Who is working against whom and why?" While not always surprising, it's an engrossing little puzzle to try and figure out, and the climax is a suspenseful nail biter.
		It's not a well known film however if you take the time to view it, you will be impressed.
		The story is not a gay theme as you may expect, in fact the gay relationship is only one of many plot devices that weave the overall story.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00000JGHT (889 words)

	Amazon.com: Deathtrap (1982): DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		When DEATHTRAP was first released, the poster--reproduced on the cover of this DVD--offered a graphic akin to a Rubik's Cube.
		DEATHTRAP is one of those films that it is very difficult to discuss, for to do so in any detail gives away the very plot for which it is famous.
		But even so it is DEATHTRAP, and it is DEATHTRAP very expertly done, the perfect movie to curl up with on a dark and stormy night.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00000JGHT?v=glance (1678 words)

	Deathtrap Movie
		Caine's character receives a brilliant manuscript in the mail from a former seminar student (Christopher Reeve) who is completely unknown to the world and Caine begins to fantasize about stealing the play and producing it as his own.
		His sense of timing and comic delivery are on display here and while I didn't expect to enjoy the film for a variety of reasons, his character had me laughing constantly.
		The film deserves a full DVD treatment, complete with special features and the widescreen format.
	www.movie-pages.com /movie/deathtrap/B00000JGHT (584 words)

	Rotten Tomatoes Forums - has anyone seen Deathtrap?
		Deathtrap and Nuts are my two favorite movies adapted from a play.
		A very serious study of soldiers preparing to leave for Vietnam and the effects that the discovery of a gay man in their ranks has on their morale.
		A powerful, devastatingly sad story of a young boy who blinds a stable full of horses with a metal spike and the doctor who tries to help him, only to discover that he and the boy are much alike.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /vine/showthread.php?t=200067 (677 words)

	Deep Discount DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		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.
		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.
	www.deepdiscountdvd.com /dvd.cfm?itemid=WBD011256 (212 words)

	deseretnews.com \| Reeve leaves a super legacy, not just on film
		In 1981, I had been reviewing films part-time for a couple of years and had just begun the job full time, and my first movie junket was a trip to Niagra Falls to see "Superman II" and interview the stars.
		"Street Smart" was a pretty good film, and Reeve was excellent — but he was overshadowed by a then-unknown actor named Morgan Freeman, who was singled out by critics and rode the film to an Oscar nomination, despite the fact that it was a box-office failure.
		Reeve and co-star Jane Seymour were both quite surprised at the film's afterlife and often commented in interviews that it was the biggest unacknowledged hit of their respective film careers.
	deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,595098249,00.html (664 words)

	'Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train': Deathtrap on Wheels in France
		There are those who admire French films just for the way they avoid such things, but stylishly diffident soap opera is on the rise in France, too.
		(This is "a film that says a lot about the positive side of funerals," Chereau told one interviewer.) They have been drawn together by the death of Jean-Baptiste, a bisexual painter whose tangle of amours could have kept these characters busy for a full ride on the Orient Express.
		And by the time either becomes a strong presence in the film, there has been opportunity either to sort out their webs of relationships or to start asking "Who are these people?" The film is deliberately indirect in its exposition.
	partners.nytimes.com /library/film/080599train-film-review.html (627 words)

	VH1.com : Movies : Movie : Deathtrap : Review
		Sidney Lumet's cinematic adaptation of Ira Levin's Deathtrap is reminiscent of Sleuth.
		The film lives and dies on the strength of its performances and the quality of the gasps triggered in the audience from the shocking plot twists.
		Deathtrap works more often than it doesn't, making it an enjoyable if slight experience.
	www.vh1.com /movies/movie/8636/review.jhtml (199 words)

	filmcritic.com Movie Review: Tape
		While the film world awaits what sounds like a daring experiment from director Richard Linklater -- the animated Waking Life, coming in October -- the filmmaker attempts to hold us over with Tape, a failure of a low-budget project if ever there was one.
		Johnny is in town to premiere his first film in a local festival, and they convene in Vince’s seedy, low-key motel room.
		It must be quite a challenge adapting a stage play to the screen, as many plays can be painfully static in comparison to the cinematic rhythms of a film.
	www.filmcritic.com /misc/emporium.nsf/ddb5490109a79f598625623d0015f1e4/fa2631ad78174d6588256abe006767cc (672 words)

	Deathtrap (1982)
		But then he receives a script for a play entitled ‘Deathtrap’ from student Clifford Anderson, which he believes to be the most perfect play he has ever read.
		But Bruhl becomes suspicious when Anderson starts writing a play called ‘Deathtrap’, which bears a suspicious resemblance to their murder of Myra.
		Which is a shame as, when I eventually saw it in 1984, it is really one of the most unabashedly out-and-out fun experiences one had had in a cinema in some time.
	www.moria.co.nz /fantasy/deathtrap82.htm (480 words)

	best kubrick film - tpwwforums.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		i think what he did with films was completely beyond humanity's portrayal of filmmaking.
		Maybe this isn't the right place to state this, but I really found A Clockwork Orange to be completely overated.
		Granted, it was a good enough film, but I do not believe it was anything near as brilliant as a lot of people seem to claim.
	www.tpww.net /forums/showthread.php?t=28080 (658 words)

	Deathtrap (1982) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The film's opening and closing scenes are shot inside New York's intimate Music Box Theater where DEATHTRAP played for nearly five years.
		Even the film's final fadeout on the theatre marquee is a version of the stageplay's famous logo.
		The film's last scene is a major Hollywood departure from the boards, and slightly undermines one of Levin's plot points from earlier in the film [Helga (about a dagger): "Will be used by another woman BECAUSE of play."].
	us.imdb.com /Title?0083806 (488 words)

	Arts&culture - September 30, 2004
		Deathtrap feels more classic than it is. The play actually made its debut in 1978, but it has all the earmarks of earlier mystery parlor plays.
		Deathtrap is formulaic, but it’s a fun formula.
		What the Delta King Theatre brings to this production is one perfect setting (a creaky, old wooden boat), five talented actors, one skillful director (Adrienne Sher) and two acts that don’t fail.
	www.newsreview.com /issues/sacto/2004-09-30/theater.asp (504 words)

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