Ira Levin’s smash Broadway murder mystery is brought to the screen in this satisfactory adaptation. Michael Caine plays a down-on-his-luck playwright who sees a chance at reclaiming success when a former student (Christopher Reeve) shows up with a sure hit script. Caine plots to murder him and take the play as his own. The twist is that the two men are actually lovers who concocted the elaborate hoax to startle Caine’s troublesome, weak-hearted wife (Dyan Cannon) into a quick and fatal coronary. The two men thankfully do not camp up their gayness or resort to any stereotypical mannerisms, and their full mouthed passionate kiss shocked audiences in its day – not so much that the kiss revealed the twist in the mystery, but demonstrated how strong an audience’s aversion was to two men kissing each other.