Sidney Bruhl is a Broadway playwright with a problem. He is all washed up. Once a master of the thriller genre, his latest whodunnit has just been booed off the stage by angry first-nighters, and, as he heads home to East Hampton, he realises he is almost out of options. He can either go on playing with his writer's block; or live off his wealthy wife's money. Of course what he really needs is another smash hit. As his professional life lies in ruins, he receives, through the post a new thriller by one of his former students. It is a play, it is brilliant, and the only person who has read it is Sidney, who has always admitted he'd kill for a hit. Which is precisely what he decides to do.
"Sidney Bruhl is a Broadway playwright with a problem. He is all washed up. Once a master of the thriller genre, his latest whodunnit has just been booed off the stage by angry first-nighters, and, as he heads home to East Hampton, he realises he is almost out of options. He can either go on playing with his writer's block; or live off his wealthy wife's money. Of course what he really needs is another smash hit. As his professional life lies in ruins, he receives, through the post a new thriller by one of his former students. It is a play, it is brilliant, and the only person who has read it is Sidney, who has always admitted he'd kill for a hit. Which is precisely what he decides to do."@en
"Murder mystery set in a remote country house, concerning a play, its authors, and their road to success."
"Murder mystery set in a remote country house, concerning a play, its authors, and their road to success."@en
"A famed mystery playwright with a recent string of flops may be planning to murder a talented former student in order to steal his work."
"This funny version of Ira Levin's Broadway hit of a locked writer, a loving, naive wife, and a former student. A stylish, sneaky, cat-and-mouse movie."@en
"A playwright with writer's block is desperate for a new hit play, and just may steal it from his gifted student."
"Mystery thriller about an aging playwright, his ailing wife anda talented student."
"After seeing his latest play fail on opening night, Sidney Bruhl receives a promising manuscript from one of his students, Clifford Anderson. Sidney and his wife Myra lure Clifford to their East Hampton home for the weekend where they plan to murder him and steal his manuscript."@en
"Un commediografo in crisi d'ispirazione vuole rubare un manoscritto al suo ex allievo e per farlo è disposto anche a uccidere: ma naturalmente non tutto andrà secondo le previsioni. (Mereghetti)."@it
"After seeing his latest play fail on opening night, Sidney Bruhl plays a game of murder to obtain a manuscript written by one of his students."
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