SLEUTH

Sleuth

Sleuth is a 1972 mystery thriller film directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. The screenplay by British playwright Anthony Shaffer was based on his 1970 Tony Award-winning play Sleuth. The film stars Laurence Olivier and Michael Caine, each of whom was nominated for an Academy Award for his performance. This was Mankiewicz's final film.

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sleuth

Noun

  1. An animal’s trail or track.
  2. A sleuth-hound; a bloodhound.
  3. A detective.

Noun (etymology 2)

  1. Slowness; laziness, sloth.
  2. A collective term for a group of bears.

Verb

  1. To act as a detective; to try to discover who committed a crime.


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