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Deathtrap

1982·116 min

Deathtrap

Directed by Sidney Lumet

ComedyCrimeThriller

A Broadway playwright puts murder in his plan to take credit for a student's script.

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Sidney Bruhl

Christopher Reeve

Clifford Anderson

Myra Bruhl

Helga ten Dorp

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Jay Presson Allen

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Andrzej Bartkowiak

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Deathtrap (1982) is about a Broadway playwright puts murder in his plan to take credit for a student's script.

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Sidney Lumet directed Deathtrap (1982).

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