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DEATHTRAP
September 14, 2015  | By David Bianculli

TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET

 
Ira Levin’s mystery thriller of a Broadway play is preserved, with wickedly good performances, in this 1982 movie, directed for the screen by Sidney Lumet and starring Michael Caine and Christopher Reeve as a once-hot playwright and his gifted student. Dyan Cannon co-stars, in a clever story about a teacher who thinks of killing a student to claim a first-draft script as his own. That reminds me – I have to teach class today…
 
 
 
 
 
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