Hoary, Dependable Mousetrap Springs Again At The Maltz
The Mousetrap at the Maltz is indeed a hoary old chestnut chock full of clichéswhich weren't even new when it bowed in 1952. But director Peter Amster and his cast wisely don't try to fight it or update it. Instead they embrace it with gusto and with hardly a post-modern wink other than playing up everyone's suspicious facets with a gleeful melodramatic flair that is usually, but not always under control.