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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.
- $3.5 million
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
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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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
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
- PG
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.