A Broadway playwright puts murder in his plan to take credit for a student's play.A Broadway playwright puts murder in his plan to take credit for a student's play.A Broadway playwright puts murder in his plan to take credit for a student's play.
- Awards
- 6 nominations
Francis B. Creamer Jr.
- The Minister
- (as Rev. Francis B. Creamer Jr.)
Jon-Erik Hexum
- Theater audience
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
- All cast & crew
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaDirector Sidney Lumet once commented on the real stage-play scenes seen in this movie: "We used the original set of 'Deathtrap' as our set for Sidney Bruhl's flop play. The Music Box (Theatre) is dark on Mondays, so we shot there on a Monday, along with six hundred dress extras as first-nighters. Thus, the opening scene is a movie of a play-within-a-play which takes place within the play on which the movie is based. If that's not completely clear, it's at least a 'first'!"
- GoofsWhen Sidney has the Deathtrap script and threatens to throw it into the fireplace, the fire isn't lit.
- Quotes
Myra Bruhl: Is it really that good?
Sidney Bruhl: I'll tell you how good it is. Even a gifted director couldn't hurt it.
- Crazy creditsMurderous weapons by Eoin Sprott.
- Alternate versionsCBS added 4 minutes to this film for its 1986 network television premiere.
Featured review
One of my all time favourites
This film is criminally underrated. I love this film to pieces. It keeps you guessing to the very end and refuses to travel in a straight line at all times. If you havent seen this, watch it immediately.
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- Aug 6, 1999
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- Release date
- Country of origin
- Language
- Also known as
- Ira Levin's Deathtrap
- Filming locations
- Pathe Studios, New York City, New York, USA(Studio, interiors: house)
- Production company
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Box office
- Budget
- $10,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $19,282,134
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $2,238,977
- Mar 21, 1982
- Gross worldwide
- $19,282,134
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