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Interesting Questions, Facts and Information
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 Interesting Questions, Facts, and Information
 Deathtrap
| What character did Michael Caine play? | Deathtrap
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| Dyan Cannon played Sidney's wife, what was her name? | Deathtrap
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| What character did Christopher Reeve play? | Deathtrap
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| What weapon was finally used to kill Clifford? | Deathtrap
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| What character actor played lawyer Porter Milgrim? | Deathtrap
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Henry Jones. He is best known for playing LeRoy in The Bad Seed but has also appeared in '9 to 5', 'Arachnophobia' and 'The Grifters'.
Irene Worth. Best known for playing Grandma Kurnitz in 'Lost in Yonkers'.
| What was the name of Sidney's most successful play? | Deathtrap
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| Sidney lied to Clifford when he talked to him on the phone and told him that he too was busy writing a play. What was the title he first gave his made up play after seeing how his wife was reacting? | Deathtrap
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The Frowning Wife. Later on when Clifford was in the house, Sidney changed it after calling it 'The Drowning Wife' by mistake.
| How many main characters are in the play 'Deathtrap'? | Deathtrap
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| Sidney's first fantasy of killing Clifford was with what weapon? | Deathtrap
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Sidney Lumet. Before 'Deathtrap' he directed such classics as 'Murder on the Orient Express', 'Serpico', 'Network', 'Equus' and 'Dog Day Afternoon' and after, 'Gloria', 'The Verdict' and 'Q and A'.
| Jeffery Lyons and Joel Siegel both appeared in the film? | Deathtrap
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True. They played themselves reviewing Sidney's newest play.
| Dyan Cannon was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress? | Deathtrap
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False. Actually she was nominated for a Razzie, losing to Aileen Quinn for 'Annie'.
| After the disastrous opening night of his new Broadway play, Sidney drunkenly takes the train home, to upstate New York. Where does he live? | Deathtrap
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Easthampton. Both Montauk and Sag Harbor are mentioned in the film, but the Bruhl estate is located in Easthampton, NY.
| Sidney explains to his wife Myra (Dyan Cannon) that he has received in the mail a play from a young man named Clifford Anderson, and at first, Sidney thinks that he remembers Clifford as an obese student from a college seminar that he once taught. A bit later in the film, though, Sidney tells Myra that he's misremembered, and that the obese student he was thinking of was someone else entirely. Sidney struggles to remember this other student's unusual name, but is onlt sure of the first letter of that name. What's the first letter of this student's name? | Deathtrap
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Q. Sidney: "Wait a minute. The fat one didn't stay for the whole week. And his name was...Quincy? Quimby? Something with a 'Q'." (All of this remembering and misremebering business is, of course, completely faked by Sidney, but we don't know that during this scene.)
| Myra Bruhl has a debilitating medical condition. What is it? | Deathtrap
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a weak heart. Sidney and Clifford take advantage of Myra's cardiac condition: they know that an appropriate fright will kill her where she stands. She has a massive coronary while Clifford chases her around the house with apparent intent to kill.
| After Sidney apparently kills Clifford Anderson (Christopher Reeve), he tells Myra that he plans to conceal the body right on their own property. Where? | Deathtrap
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in the vegetable patch. Sidney: "We'll bury him, behind the garage. [pause] No! In the vegetable patch. Easier digging."
I've always wondered about this burial bit. Since Sidney and Clifford faked their whole fight, and Clifford's "death," how did Sidney bury Clifford alive, presumably in front of Myra, without actually suffocating him? Hmmm...
| Once Myra is dead, Sidney and Clifford begin their new life together. Clifford is hard at work on a new play, which he claims is based on his experiences in a previous job. Where was Clifford's alleged job? | Deathtrap
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a welfare office. Clifford tells Sidney that he is writing a play based on his experiences in a welfare office, and even cites some specific examples of the characters and the pathos that he is striving to capture on the page. This is all a series of lies: Clifford is actually writing a thriller called "Deathtrap," which is based on the murder of Myra Bruhl that he and Sidney orchestrated only weeks before.
| Once Sidney figures out that Clifford might not be as trustworthy as he originally thought, he asks Clifford a few questions about his shady past. Fill in the missing word in Sidney's final question:
SIDNEY: "Did any of the social workers, the shrinks...did any of them ever use the word..."
CLIFFORD: "What word, love?"
SIDNEY: "____________________." | Deathtrap
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sociopath. One has to wonder how Clifford became the sociopath that he clearly is. Right and wrong mean nothing to him -- all he wants is a shortcut to fame.
| Helga Ten Dorp (Irene Worth), the neighborhood psychic -- and yes, I know how weird that sounds -- tells the Bruhls that she will soon be appearing on a televised talk show. Who's the host of the show in question? | Deathtrap
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Merv Griffin. We never get to see the broadcast, but later dialogue tells us that Helga's appearance on "The Merv Griffin Show" didn't go very well. By the end of the film, Helga turns out to be a much more integral character than her early appearances suggest!
| As Helga walks around the Bruhls' house just after the apparent murder of Clifford Anderson, her ESP gives her quite a few hints about what had just happened...and what is yet to come. One of the most powerful visions she gets leads her to ask Sidney and Myra if they know a certain man. Later in the film, Helga realizes that that particular vision wasn't referencing a man at all, but an inanimate object. What was the object? | Deathtrap
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a typewriter. Helga originally asks Sidney and Myra if they know a short black man with earmuffs named "Smith Colona." Neither of them does, which makes sense: Helga was actually picking up on Clifford Anderson's typewriter -- a stout, black Smith-Corona model. The "earmuffs" were the broad, round knobs on either side of the roller. (Yes, roller. People did, once upon a time, use manual typewriters.)
| After Myra's death, Porter informs Sidney how much money he stands to gain from her estate and life insurance policy. How much is it? | Deathtrap
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$1,000,000. Sidney originally tells Clifford that the amount he stands to inherit is "minimal," but he later admits that he was lying: Sidney is about to come into "about a million dollars," according to his own dialogue.
| Sidney's study doubles as an arsenal of sorts. With which weapon does he mortally wound Clifford at the end of the film? | Deathtrap
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a crossbow. Sidney shoots Clifford in the back with a single crossbow bolt. Clifford drops like a rock, but later regains consciousness just long enough to swing an axe at Sidney's neck. Since Helga Ten Dorp steals the "Deathtrap" play for herself, it's reasonable to assume that Sidney and Clifford killed each other.
| After Myra's death, Helga pays a visit on Sidney, ostensibly to borrow something. What does she ask to borrow? | Deathtrap
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candles. She pretends to want candles, but this is pretense: she really comes over to warn Sidney that Clifford is going to attack him...and of course, she turns out to be right. It's a good thing she borrowed those candles, though -- they come in awfully handy in the climax of the film!
| What is unusual about the hat that Helga wears throughout the film? | Deathtrap
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It has reflectors on it.. Helga wears a "reflector cap," since she is a late-night jogger, and it seems to fit her perfectly. She even wears it to the premiere of "her" play, despite the fact that she is wearing an evening gown!
"Waste not, want not!". Seymour Starger, formerly Sidney's agent, says to his new client Helga on the opening night of "Deathtrap": "Helga, baby, that play you wrote is gonna make us a fortune!" Helga, seemingly (and surprisingly) possessed of no more of a conscience than Sidney or Clifford, responds with "Waste not, want not!"
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