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  1. Sleuth is a 1972 mystery thriller film directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and starring Laurence Olivier and Michael Caine. The screenplay by playwright Anthony Shaffer was based on his 1970 Tony Award -winning play. Both Olivier and Caine were nominated for Academy Awards for their performances. This was Mankiewicz's final film.

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  2. www.imdb.com › title › tt0069281Sleuth (1972) - IMDb

    Dec 11, 1972 · Sleuth: Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. With Laurence Olivier, Michael Caine, Alec Cawthorne, John Matthews. A man who loves games and theater invites his wife's lover to meet him, setting up a battle of wits with potentially deadly results.

    • Joseph L. Mankiewicz
    • 187
    • 2 min
  3. What really makes the movie come alive--what makes it work better than the play, really--are the lead performances by Sir Laurence Olivier, Michael Caine, and Alec Cawthorne. Olivier plays the wealthy mystery writer Andrew Wyke as a true-blue British eccentric: His head, like his house, is cluttered with ornate artifacts largely without function.

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  5. 1.2K. 107K views 2 years ago. Sleuth is a 1972 British-American mystery comedy thriller film. It was nominated for best director, best actor, and best original score at the academy awards....

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  6. Late one Friday afternoon, London hairdresser Milo Tindle is invited to visit famous author Andrew Wyke, who specializes in old-fashioned detective fiction, at his country estate in Wiltshire. Upon his arrival, Milo searches through a hedgerow maze to find Andrew, who is dictating his latest novel. Andrew, who revels in games and toys of all ...

    • Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Kip Gowans
    • Laurence Olivier
  7. www.rottentomatoes.com › m › 1019196-sleuthSleuth | Rotten Tomatoes

    Based on the renowned play by Anthony Shaffer, this mystery finds Andrew Wyke (Laurence Olivier), a wealthy author of detective novels and game aficionado, facing off against his wife's lover ...

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    • Mystery & Thriller
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  8. Summaries. A man who loves games and theater invites his wife's lover to meet him, setting up a battle of wits with potentially deadly results. Andrew Wyke is a famous and successful author of detective novels. Milo Tindle comes to him with a strange request, that Mr Wyke divorce his wife so that Tindle can marry her.

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