Ah a good mystery from the 70's
Added 11/23/2008
Rehearsal for a Murder is from the golden age of the 70's mysteries of tv. For those of us who were there it seemed like there was a good mystery every week or a mystery series that was great,i.e. Banacek. The story is set on a stage and the actors are called to read for a new play. However the script is to find out who killed the playwright's girlfriend. Each actor has a motive and there is a cop on hand to keep people from leaving till the play is done. No more about the story because any more and the movie is ruined. Now watching it today the actors seem too old for some of the parts,i.e. Robert Preston as the lover/playwright. The movie takes its time on some sceens and there is very little action. Think of this as a mind game, where the viewer has to listen for the clues. The clues are given to you but in a very subtle manner. I grew up to be a play director and I have done this story as a play. As a play it moves faster, but the story still stands up. If you are the generation that grew up on action, action, and little story then runaway from this movie.
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Great movie with a twist
Added 1/11/2007
This was a fairly good Made For T.V movie. I actullay purcahsed this because I was cast as the Jeff Goldblum Character in a community theatre version of the play by the same name. The dialogue is basically word for word, with some characters from the play not int the movie and sexes changed in the movie as well. A good movie to see on a rainy day with nothing else to do
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An interesting plot twist
Added 9/8/2006
Maybe it is not the Best Movie in the World, but I found it enjoyable, especially for the final twist. I think it was a play first and it shows: not much imagination in the scenes, a rather drab setting. But still enjoyable.
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Great mystery from the creators of Columbo!
Added 3/20/2005
This is one of the best TV mysteries I've ever seen. Non-mystery fans may consider the setup preposterous, but the directive "buy the premise, buy the bit" applies here. It wasn't impressive till the end, then all became clear. If you love Levinson & Link mysteries, like the movie Murder By Natural Causes, or the TV serieses (plural?) Columbo or Columbo's descendant Murder She Wrote, you'll enjoy the twists in the plot. Just like you have to be a PeeWee Herman fan to like PeeWee Herman movies, this is a classic mystery for true mystery lovers.
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THE ONLY CRIME IS THAT THIS MESS WAS MADE!
Added 2/9/2003
Poor Robert Preston. We understand that everyone needs to earn a living, but to earn it in such a fetid fashion is unforgivable. We shouldn't blame the poor music man ... the plot is inane, the writing pedestrian and the direction is stiffer than a Viagra test room. (You know something is very wrong when even the folks who wrote the packaging copy refer to the flick's co-star Lynn Redgrave as "Vanessa Redgrave." Poor Lynn is engaged to poor Robert. She "commits suicide" on the very the night she makes her Broadway debut ... in a show he wrote. Preston is out to prove it was murder, and gathers all the possibilites in an empty theater ... sort of "The Last of Sheila" meets "And Then There Were None." The careers of co-stars William Daniels, Patrick Macnee and Jeff Goldlbum managed to survive this horror. This film doesn't. Close the curtain. Now!
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Ah a good mystery from the 70's
Added 11/23/2008
Rehearsal for a Murder is from the golden age of the 70's mysteries of tv. For those of us who were there it seemed like there was a good mystery every week or a mystery series that was great,i.e. Banacek. The story is set on a stage and the actors are called to read for a new play. However the script is to find out who killed the playwright's girlfriend. Each actor has a motive and there is a cop on hand to keep people from leaving till the play is done. No more about the story because any more and the movie is ruined. Now watching it today the actors seem too old for some of the parts,i.e. Robert Preston as the lover/playwright. The movie takes its time on some sceens and there is very little action. Think of this as a mind game, where the viewer has to listen for the clues. The clues are given to you but in a very subtle manner. I grew up to be a play director and I have done this story as a play. As a play it moves faster, but the story still stands up. If you are the generation that grew up on action, action, and little story then runaway from this movie.
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Great movie with a twist
Added 1/11/2007
This was a fairly good Made For T.V movie. I actullay purcahsed this because I was cast as the Jeff Goldblum Character in a community theatre version of the play by the same name. The dialogue is basically word for word, with some characters from the play not int the movie and sexes changed in the movie as well. A good movie to see on a rainy day with nothing else to do
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An interesting plot twist
Added 9/8/2006
Maybe it is not the Best Movie in the World, but I found it enjoyable, especially for the final twist. I think it was a play first and it shows: not much imagination in the scenes, a rather drab setting. But still enjoyable.
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