Rehearsal for Murder

Rehearsal for Murder
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Written by	Richard Levinson William Link
Directed by	David Greene
Starring	Robert Preston Lynn Redgrave Patrick Macnee
Music by	Billy Goldenberg
Country of origin	United States
Original language(s)	English
Production
Producer(s)	Robert Papazian
Cinematography	Steven Larner
Editor(s)	Parkie L. Singh
Running time	96 minutes
Production company(s)	CBS Productions Richard Levinson / William Link Productions Robert Papazian Productions
Distributor	CBS
Release
Original network	CBS
Original release	May 26, 1982 (1982-05-26)
External links
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Rehearsal for Murder is a 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 — Alex Dennison
• Lynn Redgrave — Monica Welles
• Patrick Macnee — David Matthews
• Lawrence Pressman — Lloyd Andrews
• William Russ — Frank Heller
• Madolyn Smith — Karen Daniels
• William Daniels — Walter Lamb
• Jeff Goldblum — Leo Gibbs
• John P. Finnegan — Damon
• Nicholas Mele — The First Officer
• Vahan Moosekian — The Moving Man
• Charles Robinson — The Second Officer
• Wallace Rooney — Ernie
• Buck Young — Lieutenant McElroy

External links

• Rehearsal for Murder at IMDb