Rehearsal for Murder

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Rehearsal for Murder
DVD artwork.
Genre	Drama Mystery Thriller
Written by	Richard Levinson William Link
Directed by	David Greene
Starring	Robert Preston Lynn Redgrave
Music by	Billy Goldenberg
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
Production
Executive producers	Richard Levinson William Link
Producer	Robert A. Papazian
Cinematography	Stevan Larner
Editor	Parkie Singh
Running time	96 minutes
Production companies	CBS Productions A Richard Levinson / William Link Production in association with Robert Papazian Productions, Inc.
Distributor	PolyGram Television King Features Entertainment
Release
Original network	CBS
Picture format	Color
Audio format	Mono
Original release	May 26, 1982 (1982-05-26)

Rehearsal for Murder is an American murder mystery television film starring Robert Preston and Lynn Redgrave, and directed by David Greene. The script, written by Richard Levinson and William Link, won a 1983 Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America. It originally aired on the CBS Television Network on May 26, 1982.

Plot[]

When his leading lady (and fiancée) Monica Welles (Redgrave) is found dead from an apparent suicide after the opening night of her Broadway stage debut, playwright Alex Dennison (Preston) is left heartbroken. On the first anniversary of her death, he gathers the cast and crew from that ill-fated night in the same Broadway theater, ostensibly to read a new play he is working on, a mystery in which a famous actress is killed. As the reading progresses, the scenes seem to the cast to be uncomfortably close to actual encounters they might have had with Monica. When pressed, Alex finally reveals that he believes that Monica was murdered and that someone at the theater is her killer.

Cast[]

• Robert Preston as Alex Dennison
• Lynn Redgrave as Monica Welles
• Patrick Macnee as David Matthews
• Lawrence Pressman as Lloyd Andrews
• William Russ as Frank Heller
• Madolyn Smith as Karen Daniels
• Jeff Goldblum as Leo Gibbs
• William Daniels as Walter Lamb
• John Finnegan as Damon
• Vahan Moosekian as The Moving Man
• Nicholas Mele as First Officer
• Charlie Robinson as Second Officer
• Sergio Kato as Third Officer
• Wallace Rooney as Ernie
• Buck Young as Lieutenant McElroy

External links[]

• Rehearsal for Murder at IMDb

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