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Sleuth
- Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
- Writer: Anthony Shaffer
- Producer: Morton Gottlieb; David Middlemas
CGiii Comment
This is really rather difficult...the 'legend' that is Olivier is a little threadbare if this is anything to go by.
Camp and ham are two words that can be easily used to describe both performances.
It may have been a delight on stage...but, under the close scrutiny of the camera is falls short...
The make-up department were lousy - and, it all hinged on the make-up department not being lousy!
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
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. Mr Wyke is not particularly perturbed by this, he and his wife have drifted apart, and he is having an affair with another woman anyway, but uses the meeting and Mr Tindle's request as a chance to play a game, a game with potentially deadly consequences.
Cast & Characters
Laurence Olivier as Andrew Wyke;
Michael Caine as Milo Tindle;
Alec Cawthorne as Inspector Doppler;
John Matthews as Detective Sergeant Tarrant;
Eve Channing as Marguerite Wyke;
Teddy Martin as Police Constable Higgs