Действительно очень захватывающий и необычный триллер, снятый моим любимым режиссером, Сидни Люметом.
Пьеса очень знаменитая, и у неё даже стоит рекорд по количеству актеров исполнивших её.
Единственное, что меня дико раздражало, так это соседка. Убить была её готова, просто не могла на неё смотреть.
Хотя может именно этот эффект и должен был быть, герои тоже бесились когда она заходила к ним.
А еще Дайан Кэннон в некоторых моментах реально переигрывала и местами это превращало фильм в комедию.
За это ей заслуженную Золотую малину !
Выше в кадре с Майклом Кейном мог быть только "Супермен" Кристофер Рив.
Это мой первый фильм с Кристофером Ривом. А он хороший актер, я даже не ожидала.
Высокииииий, красивый.
Ну и Майкл это ж !
Не понимаю, почему они пожалели о съемке этой секундной сцены поцелуя?
Намеки это всё хорошо, но зрителю порой бывает их недостаточно.
Хотя ... если подумать, можно было бы и без него ... но и с ним неплохо.
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This was the first and only time actor Michael Caine worked with director Sidney Lumet.
Caine originally was going to star in Lumet's The Hill seventeen years prior to this movie but pulled-out to star as Alfie.
Caine once commented: "This is terrible Sidney, and you may never want to work with me again.
But I've been offered the role of a lifetime - and I want out of 'The Hill'." Lumet has said: "I couldn't turn him down.
The other role of course, was 'Alfie', and it was the turning point in Michael's career. Despite that rocky start, we became good friends. And we've been trying to get together professionally ever since."
When this movie was made and released, actor Christopher Reeve was at the peak of his fame from playing Superman having appeared in Superman and Superman II and was about to be appearing in Superman III.
Reeve accepted this part because it had nothing to do with neither the Clark Kent nor Superman character and he wished to avoid being typecast by his superhero persona.
Michael Caine once described his character of Sidney Bruhl in this movie: "He's a very successful mystery writer, with expensive tastes and a sick wife, whose macabre muse has deserted him.
He has always assumed that committing crime on paper siphons one's hostilities. But now, after a lifetime of vicarious murder, Bruhl finds himself fantasizing the real thing.
Even so, I kept asking myself - how do you explain his strange behavior? Childhood trauma? A deep-rooted compulsion? The stigma of a name like Sidney?
No, that's all too simple. The answer is that he's mad - stark raving mad! It's a lovely role."
According to separate interviews with Michael Caine and Christopher Reeve, they had hesitations regarding the filming of the infamous "kissing" scene.
Once they decided to go through with it they both consumed large amounts of alcohol in order to keep themselves calm and drunk enough that they'd do anything anyone asked them to do.
Caine reportedly later regretted the scene and vowed to never film another homosexual sequence. To this day he never has.
Christopher Reeve once said of the gay love scene with Michael Caine in this movie: "I hope that audiences will not over-focus on the homosexual aspects of a thriller."