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Sleuth [1972]

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Year:1972
Country:International
Language:English
Genre:Mystery, Thriller
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Rating:8.8  Rate
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DirectorJoseph L. Mankiewicz
Selected CastLaurence Olivier as Andrew Wyke
 Michael Caine as Milo Tindle
 Alec Cawthorne as Inspector Doppler
 John Matthews as Detective Sergeant Tarrant


Notes

A USA / UK co-production

On DVD & Blu-ray World

DVD

Sleuth - Anchor Bay Entertainment - UK (2002)


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Magic Marmalade
5th Jul 2023
 Rated 10/10
Still the best of it's kind for me!

This was probably my earliest introduction murder mystery / stageplay movies, and it remains entrancing to me all these years later.

Just two dudes in a room (a very BIG room.. in a very BIG manor house in the country) trying to out-wit, and out-do each other in the ultimate, deadly game of cat and mouse.

- OK, so the "twist" probably won't fool many, if any, but it's the drama, and the acting, as well as the portrayal of very specific character tropes of the time: Olivier's arrogant, upper-crust English Aristocrat gentleman sleuth novelist of leisure, set against Caine's lower class cockney / immigrant / new blood / new money, comparatively youthful type that makes this endlessly captivating.

...So much so, that you find yourself perfectly prepared to consciously suspend any disbelief you will undoubtedly have, and go along for the ride.

(As opposed to having to be convinced by the movie makers to do so, by any contrivance of theirs)

Still the gold standard of tightly focused murder mystery movies for me.

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