full of spoiler . this be a pretty fast and enjoyable crime thriller base on ira levin play about two gay playwright ( caine and reeve ) that plot the murder of one rich wife ( cannon ) to get the property and the insurance . the plot succeed but christopher reeve a the young and less establish of the two writer decide to make a play out of the actual murder with only slight change in the detail . reeve allow that easthampton and long island and can become southampton and long island and in the script and for instance . the rest of the play plot be a dead giveaway and to tell the truth reeve doesn not mind a little gossip or even an inquiry into cannon apparently accidental death . it will boost the revenue and his own warhol quotient . michael caine be sidney bruhl and the megabucks make playwright whose last four production bomb and who would like nothing more than to quietly get back to work on a new play and perhaps with reeve input and that would redeem his reputation . he can not permit reeve scandalous play a clef to be produce . so what else . he try to murder him . in the end they wind up kill one another and the manuscript be appropriate by their neighbor and the psychic helga tensdoorp and and she make a million buck sell it to broadway . it a lot of fun for a number of reason . one be the production design . that multi room and multi storied house with the big windmill atop and situate on nine of what must be the most valuable acre on earth ( easthampton . ) would be a splendid set of dig anywhere . you wouldn not be able to afford a pup tent in easthamptom . the house be not overly large or baroque in it decor . it just magnificently modest and although it a little tidy for my taste and the kind of house that so clean youre afraid to step on the thick carpet for fear of leave the imprint of a foot . next and the acting could hardly be improve upon . caine and cannon and and fred jones be superb . dyan cannon give a pitch perfect performance a the anxious wife whose slack be so tight they look a if they would be spray on and which be okay give her asset . even reeve and whose talent be limit and seem to find a comfortable niche in his role of affable but psychopathic murderer . irene worth and a the psychic neighbor helga and be in some way hard to define and a mistake . grant she or someone like her be necessary to the plot and but and my god and what an offensive snoop her character be and go around and claim and i feel pain in zis woom . i suppose in order to make her a little more interesting and she get up in sweat and a goofy look cap with bicycle reflector on it . still and she a nuisance from begin to end . you have to love ira levin bitchy dialog . the distraught caine begs reeve to tell him why he write the tell all play . because it there and sidney . say reeve and and caine shout and that mountain and not play . play aren not there until some hole write them . great too be caine call to the police after his wife drop dead of fright and a plan . he work himself up into a torrent of sob and barely able to speak and a he report the incident and implore that an ambulance be send immediately . when he hang up and his face assume it usual placid expression and he blow his nose into his handkerchief and and walk away and all business again . the climax and though suitably ironic and be confuse and noisy and full of artifice and lacking in the wicked charm that levin and lumet bring to the early scene . the score be mostly make up of light hearted riff on the harpsichord and neatly fit into the film . you will probably enjoy it .