Sleuth (1972 film) Sleuth (1972 film) Sleuth is a 1972 British-American 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, and would later note similarities between it and Caine's 1982 film "Deathtrap". Andrew Wyke, a successful writer of crime fiction, who lives in a large country manor house filled with elaborate games and automata, invites his wife's lover Milo
USS Baretta (AN-41) work on moorings but, on 1 October, worsening weather forced her to stop. In the midst of a moderate gale the next morning, "LCT-404" requested help for an "LCM" whose ramp had jammed in the down position. "Baretta" answered the call, towing the craft alongside stern first, and then into the lee of the island off Red Beach. When the "LCM's" ramp had been freed and secured, the landing craft proceeded under her own power to Red Beach. Later that day, Baretta retrieved an unmanned "LCVP" adrift in a seaway. She took the landing craft in tow, but the line