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The Third Degree Movie Trailer HD - Plot synopsis: Four actors rehearse a London play as secrets and rivalries surface, spiraling into deadly twists where reality blurs.

William has written and is directing a murder mystery steeped in Hitchcockian dread and 1920s film noir. To bring it to life, he's gathered his former classmates from an English Dramatic Academy for a single night of rehearsals inside a creaky, centuries-old London theater. The script is tightly controlled. The cast is hand-picked. What happens next is anything but.

As the night wears on, hidden affairs, buried betrayals, and dangerous ambitions crack the surface. William rewrites scenes on the fly, manipulating his fellow actors' egos and desires as deftly as he manipulates the characters on the page. Flashbacks to 1922 blur the boundaries between then and now, between fiction and something far more sinister unfolding in real time.

What began as a rehearsal becomes a trap. In twist after twist, the four actors try to outwit each other — until the violence stops being theatrical. By the final act, no one in the room, and no one watching, can be certain who is performing and who is in genuine danger.

The Third Degree is a razor-sharp psychological thriller about the terrifying distance between performance and reality.

Directed by Ryan Little
Starring James Barrington, Eric Geynes, Tom Hutch, Nicola Posener

On Digital JULY 10 on Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play, YouTube Movies, and Cable On Demand.

When the curtain falls, the truth is deadlier than the fiction.
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Transcript
00:04In this temple of Osiris, you have been weighed in the balance and found guilty.
00:10With your own confession, you recounted bearing a knife that has been identified as the weapon in this heinous crime.
00:18I've been an inspector for the yard for over 20 years. How do you account for the blood on your
00:23hands?
00:23We found you here, in this building, this night, because you came to murder your wife's lover.
00:28Gabrielle, I saw you with me.
00:30No, that's not what you think.
00:31Nothing is what we think it is.
00:32It's not working.
00:33What?
00:33It's not working.
00:34What isn't working, Will?
00:36I'll fix this.
00:37If you two are going to take a rewrite break, can I at least get out of this bloody costume?
00:41When was anyone going to tell me we were on break?
00:43Changes for the new act.
00:44When are we supposed to learn all these new lines?
00:46They all must die.
00:48Go and tell each one of them the lie that you want them to believe.
00:51Double, double, toil in trouble.
00:54You've gone mad.
00:55Will?
00:55Will, get back here!
00:56No one can escape the nightmares of their own make.
01:01Well, you are the director.
01:05Expect the unexpected.
01:07Did you really think you can get away with framing me for murdering someone?
01:10Sir William, didn't see that coming.
01:12It looks like you've murdered the wrong person.
01:15You'll never get away with this.
01:16You must stop saying such things.
01:19Come out, come out, wherever you are.
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