Sleuth(Movie, 1972)

Name: Sleuth
Genre: Mystery, Thriller, Crime, Comedy
Released: 1972
Duration: T02:18:00
Rating: 3.8

| 2h 18min | Genres: Mystery, Thriller, Crime, Comedy

Rating: 3.8/5 (with 251 votes)

Sleuth is a 1972 mystery thriller film directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and starring Laurence Olivier and Michael Caine. The screenplay by playwright Anthony Shaffer was based on his 1970 Tony Award-winning play. Both Olivier and Caine were nominated for Academy Awards for their performances. This was Mankiewicz's final film. Critics gave the film overwhelmingly positive reviews. ()

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Awards & Nominations for Sleuth

2x nominated for: Academy Award for Best Actor nominated for: Academy Award for Best Director nominated for: Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic Score

About Sleuth

A mystery novelist devises an insurance scam with his wife's lover – but things aren't exactly as they seem.

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Trailer for Sleuth + Featurettes/Teaser/Clips

Trailer(Trailer, 2:02)

Additional Information

Production country: United Kingdom (UK)

Shot in: Pinewood Studios

Plays in: England

Based on: "Sleuth" (find it on Amazon)

Made by: Palomar Pictures International

Original language: English (EN)

Spoken languages: English (EN), Italian (IT)

Translated into 23 languages: Bulgarian (BG), Catalan (CA), Czech (CS), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Persian (FA), Finnish (FI), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Korean (KO), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Swedish (SV), Turkish (TR), Ukrainian (UK), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)

Status: Released

Release date US: 12/10/1972

Cast: Laurence Olivier, Michael Caine

Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Producer: Morton Gottlieb

Screenwriter: Anthony Shaffer

Film Editor: Richard Marden

Director of Photography: Oswald Morris

Composer: John Addison

Production Designer: Ken Adam

Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):

"侦察"

"Mord mit kleinen Fehlern"

"La huella"

"Le Limier"

"Gli insospettabili"

"발자국"

Keywords: author, english countryside, romantic rivalry, robbery, infidelity, game, extramarital affair, upper class, two-hander

Budget: 3,500,000 USD

Revenue: 5,750,000 USD (= 164%)