Masquerade - A deadly game
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Masquerade - A deadly game |
| Original title | Masquerade |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1988 |
| length | 91 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK from 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Bob Swaim |
| script | Larry Brody , Dick Wolf |
| production | Michael I. Levy , Dick Wolf |
| music | John Barry |
| camera | David Watkin |
| cut | Scott Conrad |
| occupation | |
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Masquerade - A Deadly Game (Original title: Masquerade ) is an American thriller from 1988. Directed by Bob Swaim .
action
Olivia Lawrence is the heiress of a great fortune. Her stepfather Tony Gateworth claims part of the inheritance for himself. Olivia starts a relationship with the smart regatta sailor Tim Whalen. Tony argues with Tim, who kills him in self-defense. Olivia increasingly suspects her lover, whom she wants to marry, that he is also interested in her fortune. She marries him anyway and becomes pregnant a little later, which she reveals to her husband.
Whalen tells his accomplice, Mike McGill, a police officer, that he cannot kill the pregnant woman. McGill blackmailed him and threatened to blow Whalen. It occurred to McGill that the gas supply to the stove on Olivia's boat could be cut off as if the line had bitten a rat.
Tim and Olivia arrange to meet on the boat, Olivia wants to go shopping first. In one of the drawers in his house, Tim finds the tool his accomplice left behind to cut the gas pipe. He drives quickly to the marina, sees Olivia's parked car and runs to the boat. There he turns off the gas supply, but accidentally presses a switch. The boat explodes. Olivia, who has been holding up a conversation with a friend, sees the explosion. She is taken to the local police office, where she sees photos on the wall suggesting Tim and McGill knew each other well. Olivia finds out about the conspiracy. She fights against McGill, whom she finally pushes through a window in self-defense.
After her husband's funeral, Olivia learns that Tim had seen the couple's lawyer two weeks earlier. He was struck out of the will as a potential heir in order - as the lawyer says - "not to come into material temptation".
background
The thriller grossed $ 15,855,828 at the box office in the United States.
Reviews
“Superficial ready-made crime thriller that neither shows characters deep in character nor offers real conflicts and entanglements,” said the lexicon of international films . Rita Kempley of the Washington Post said in 1988 that the plot was artificial but it worked. The director had planned a film noir for the 1980s; Rob Lowe is neither Humphrey Bogart nor Cary Grant, but a sex idol. Prisma called the film a "cunning story about money and sex". He is "not a Hitchcock, but quite close".
Awards
Dick Wolf was nominated for the Edgar Allan Poe Award in 1989.
Web links
- Masquerade - A deadly game in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Masquerade - A deadly game at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Masquerade - A Deadly Game. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed September 2, 2017 .
- ↑ See washingtonpost.com
- ↑ See prisma.de