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Sleuth

Cast

Laurence Olivier, Michael Caine, Alec Cawthorne, John Matthews View All


Crew

Anthony Shaffer (Screenplay), Joseph L. Mankiewicz (Director) View All

Release: Dec. 10th, 1972
Runtime: 2 hours, 18 minutes
A mystery novelist devises an insurance scam with his wife's lover – but things aren't exactly as they seem.
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TheUsualSuspect
The film takes a few detours in what one would expect a story like this to go, once the detective shows up I didn't know if this was suppose to be the same character or if it was a nod to the audience that this was simply a two man show no matter how many characters show up.
JayDee
In this kind of film however it works extremely well, providing a great deal of the film's fun.
Gideon58
Mankiewicz, who won four Oscars for writing and directing A Letter to Three Wives and 1950's Best Picture All About Eve, providing the aforementioned claustrophobic atmosphere through his supervision of superb production design, art direction, and set direction that is unparalleled, not to mention t....


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