Sleuth
1972
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Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Cast: Laurence Olivier, Michael Caine, Alec Cawthorne, John Matthews
A mystery writer, exuberantly played by Laurence Olivier, decides to teach his wife's lover a lesson. This con drama has a good reputation, but today it seems overlong, obvious and cinematically dull. This two-actors-in-one-house drama is based on a stage play (by Anthony Shaffer). Remade in 2007.
