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Dressed to Kill

film by De Palma [1980]

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In Brian De Palma: The 1980s and ’90s
…wrote and directed the controversial Dressed to Kill (1980). Angie Dickinson starred as a sexually frustrated Manhattan housewife who, after sleeping with a stranger, is brutally murdered—in a chilling elevator sequence that recalls the famous shower scene from Psycho—and the search begins to find her killer. Nancy Allen, De Palma’s…
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role of Caine

In Michael Caine
…1980s included Brian De Palma’s Dressed to Kill (1980), Deathtrap (1982), Educating Rita (1983; best actor Oscar nomination), Mona Lisa (1986), Woody Allen’s Hannah and Her Sisters (1986; Academy Award for best supporting actor), Without a Clue (1988),
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