True Confession - DVD

If you were a famed mystery playwright with a devastating string of recent flops, what would you do for a can't-miss thriller script? Beg for it? Pay for it? Kill for it? Get snared in Deathtrap, the fiendishly funny film version of Ira Levin's Broadway hit starring Michael Caine as the blocked writer, Dyan Cannon as his loving, naive wife and Christopher Reeve as a former student who's written a play so flawless "even a gifted director couldn't ruin it." Gifted director Sidney Lumet and screenwriter Jay Presson Allen pack this movie's insidious hairpin twists with such drop-dead wit and delightful dread that you'll stop laughing...only long enough to gasp in surprise.

Kay Francis suffers unspeakable hardships in this "well acted and directed" (Film Daily) drama costarring Basil Rathbone and Ian Hunter. It's been 15 years since Vera Kowalska (Francis) last saw her daughter Lisa. A famed opera star, Vera was compromised by womanizing concert pianist Michael Michailow (Rathbone), her disgrace leading to divorce and her husband (Hunter) taking off with their child. Reduced to singing in cheap cabarets, V

Victor McLaglen stars as Pat McGinnis, a brute with a sensitive soul who falls afoul of fate thanks to wanting to impress his love, Molly Sullivan (Sally Eilers). Getting sent up on a minor charge to avoid a murder rap, Pat becomes the pet project of Father Loma (Joseph Calleia). Befriending Molly, Loma brings her to see Pat and begins Pat's process of parole. After a near-fatal incident brings a full confession out of Pat, Loma now kno