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Rehearsal for Murder (TV 1982)A year after his fiancée's death, a playwright schedules a rehearsal for his new play, which proves to be a trap for her killer. Director:David Greene |
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Title: Rehearsal for Murder (TV 1982)
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| Robert Preston | ... |
Alex Dennison
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| Lynn Redgrave | ... |
Monica Welles
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| Patrick Macnee | ... |
David Mathews
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| Lawrence Pressman | ... |
Lloyd Andrews
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| William Russ | ... |
Frank Heller
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Madolyn Smith Osborne | ... |
Karen Daniels
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| Jeff Goldblum | ... |
Leo Gibbs
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| William Daniels | ... |
Walter Lamb
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| John Finnegan | ... |
Damon
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| Nicholas Mele | ... |
The First Officer
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Vahan Moosekian | ... |
The Moving Man
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| Charles Robinson | ... |
The Second Officer
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Wallace Rooney | ... |
Ernie
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Buck Young | ... |
Lieutenant McElroy
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In a theatre on Broadway, a group of friends remember the opening night from one year ago. On this night, the leading lady was apparently murdered. On this day, these people, all involved in the production, are brought back by the fiancee of this murder victim, a distinguished playwright, to read for parts in his new play. However, he believes she was murdered, and now wants to catch the killer. Written by <Fildapimp@netscape.net>
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EnglishRelease Date:
26 May 1982 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Cold Reading See more »Company Credits
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CBS Entertainment Production, Richard Levinson / William Link Productions, Robert Papazian Productions See more »
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Dostoevsky is claimed to once have said that if a gun is seen in the first act of a play then it must be shot with by the third...
This was very true of "Rehearsal For Murder" a made for TV film back in the early 80's with a veteran and sterling cast - including a very angular and fresh-faced Jeff Goldblum, pre-Fly.
The man who carried the show was the late, great, inimitable Robert Preston - while known known to have been in some westerns in the 50s, he shone in the original film of "The Music Man," as he did in "The Last Starfighter" and still to my view Robert Preston earned the Oscar in Blake Edwards' version of "Victor, Victoria" with Alex Karras, Dame Julie Andrews and James Garner (perhaps Karras getting Best Actor In Supporting Role).
I digress, yet Robert carried the show as the aggrieved and lovelorn playwright Alex Dennison, who was convinced his fiancée - played by Lynn Redgrave - was in fact murdered and not a suicide as most folk thought in the movie.
In what appears to be a roleplaying manhunt of a whodunit by Preston/Dennison, you are given the impression he already knows who did the deed - or does he? William "St Elsewhere" Daniels, Patrick "The Avengers" MacNee and ex-Wiseguy alumni William Russ all executed their parts with intricate precision in this mystery that will have you turning every which way until the very last minute and even then you may not see where the plot is heading...
A very well-written script from Richard Levinson & William Link - with a long combined history of writing for hit series like "Murder She Wrote," "Columbo," and "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" then it's no mystery why this show if done as a book would be a sure-fire page-turner! http://tinyurl.com/3464k/