Deathtrap

All in good fun, washed-up playwright Sidney (Michael Caine), whom we fear might actually murder his former seminar student Clifford (Christopher Reeve) and steal his play, has tricked him into trying out some handcuffs, his wife (Dyan Cannon) close to panic, in Deathtrap, 1982.

Director Sidney Lumet opens at the Music Box, where the original play by Ira Levin ran for years, Michael Caine as playwright Sidney, watching the opening of his latest flop, Dyan Cannon his daffy wife on the phone, Joe Silver his producer, in Deathtrap,1982, co-starring Christopher Reeve.

Desperate playwright Sidney (Michael Caine) picks up Clifford (Christopher Reeve), whom he's invited to discuss his own brilliant first play, his wife (Dyan Cannon) looking for signs he was kidding about killing the author and stealing his work, in Sidney Lumet's adaptation of Deathtrap, 1982.