every time you think you have a handle on deathtrap and another plot twist come along . best to just sit back and enjoy the ride on this one . most noted for it on screen kiss between michael caine and christopher reeve ( which be unfortunately cut from the televised version i saw ) and this movie have a great deal more to recommend it . sidney bruhl ( michael caine ) be a very unhappy man . once a successful playwright and his last several play on broadway have flop . and while his wife myra ( dyan cannon ) be nothing but supportive and in both the monetary and emotional sense and this do little to make sidney feel any good . to add insult to injury and young playwright and clifford anderson ( christopher reeve ) and have just send sidney a play to look at . it anderson first and and sidney can see that the young man be a gifted writer . he joke to his wife that he should invite anderson over and kill him and and submit the play a his own . she laugh with him at first and but when sidney actually invite anderson over for dinner and she worry that he may really be put his scheme into action . and her fear just may be justify . it a brilliant script . there be twist and turn all through the plot and and they come fast and more furious a you get close to the end . it the kind of film that have you on the edge of your seat from the beginning and and keep you there the entire time . an absolute masterpiece of suspense and mystery . the acting be excellent . caine give his usual excellent performance and and he do exhibit a knack for play culture and refine and and intellectual men . reeve also give an excellent rendering of a man who isn not nearly a wide eye or innocent a he seem . cannon franticness work well for myra . and irene worth give a nice performance a a nosy neighbor who be also a psychic . this be a film with an end you would never expect and and repeat watching help to pick up on thing miss in early viewing . an unsung classic that be unfortunately only remember for a scene which ruffle some sensibility at the time and that be a real shame .