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Why this pick
A deliciously theatrical, single-setting thriller where a playwright’s creative process becomes inseparable from menace. Its witty stage-world games, escalating suspicion, and sharply performed reversals closely suit Rehearsal for Murder.
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This elegant chamber mystery shares the pleasure of performance, deception, and characters testing one another inside an elaborately controlled game. Its civilized surface steadily gives way to taut psychological combat.
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A show-business murder puzzle built around a gathering of people with secrets, clues, and old resentments. It offers the same polished ensemble interplay and fair-play pleasure of watching accusations tighten.
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A glamorous backstage murder mystery with a troubled actress at its center. The film has a similarly old-fashioned, star-studded whodunit flavor and uses the artifice of performance to deepen suspicion.
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Peter O’Toole’s Holmes mystery favors theatrical personalities, darkly comic intrigue, and a carefully sustained question of who can be trusted. Its period style retains the cozy-yet-menacing pleasures of a classic TV whodunit.
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01 / THE STORY
When his leading lady (and fiancée) Monica Welles (Redgrave) is found dead from an apparent suicide after the opening night of her Broadway stage debut, playwright Alex Dennison (Preston) is left heartbroken. On the first anniversary of her death, he gathers the cast and crew from that ill-fated night in the same Broadway theater, ostensibly to read a new play he is working on, a mystery in which a famous actress is killed. As the reading progresses, the scenes seem to the cast to be uncomfortably close to actual encounters they might have had with Monica. When pressed, Alex finally reveals that he believes that Monica was murdered, and that someone at the theater is her killer.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
David Mathews
Karen Daniels
Monica Welles
Alex Dennison
Leo Gibbs
Lloyd Andrews
Frank Heller
Walter Lamb