Rehearsal for Murder

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.

Cast

Robert Preston

as Alex Dennison

Lynn Redgrave

as Monica Welles

Patrick Macnee

as David Mathews

Lawrence Pressman

as Lloyd Andrews

William Russ

as Frank Heller

Madolyn Smith Osborne

as Karen Daniels

Jeff Goldblum

as Leo Gibbs

William Daniels

as Walter Lamb

John Finnegan

as Damon

Nicholas Mele

as The First Officer

Reviews

Wuchak

**_A playwright stages a play to flush out the murderer of his fiancé_** This was released to TV in the spring of 1982 and made into a play the next year for regional & community theaters in which it skyrocketed into popularity (with school plays later being based on it). The plot is reminisc...

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