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Sleuth

1972

Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Laurence Olivier, Michael Caine, Alec Cawthorne, John Matthews ...

8.1

32,166

Mystery Andrew Wyke (Laurence Olivier) is a famous writer of crime novels. Moreover, his passion for puzzles and riddles has led him to transform his mansion into a museum where bizarre toys and mechanisms are exposed. One evening, Milo Tindle (Michael Caine), his wife's lover and owner of several beauty salons, visits him and proposes a clever plan that can be beneficial for the two of them.

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Derek Adams Time Out	"Shaffer's plot is labyrinthine enough to grip from start to finish, and the performances are superb Thoroughly entertaining"	POS
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"[It is] a totally engrossing entertainment, is funny and scary by turns, and always superbly theatrical (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Jay Cocks Time	"This is a fastidious, acrobatically cunning and invigoratingly well-acted thriller."	POS
United States	Variety	"[It] is terrific. Anthony Shaffer's topnotch screenplay (...) provides Laurence Olivier and especially Michael Caine with two of their best roles."	POS
United Kingdom	Tom Cox Telegraph	"Of the two memorable British films scripted by Anthony Shaffer in the early 1970s (...) [this] is possibly the more accomplished - sharper in its plotting and barely less spooky."	POS

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