Sleuth (2007 film) Sleuth (2007 film) Sleuth is a 2007 British-American thriller film directed by Kenneth Branagh and starring Jude Law and Michael Caine. The screenplay by Harold Pinter is an adaptation of Anthony Shaffer's Tony Award-winning play "Sleuth". Caine had previously starred in a 1972 version, where he played Law's role against Laurence Olivier. At his country estate, a writer matches wits with an actor who has stolen his wife's heart involving mind games and tricks. The film's screenwriter, Harold Pinter, credited as "Man on TV", is seen on a television in the background interviewing another man, played by an uncredited Kenneth
Sleuth hound required that he who denies entry to the sleuth hound when in pursuit of stolen goods is held an accomplice to the theft. John Caius (translated from Latin by Fleming 1576) describes very similar uses of the English bloodhound on the borders, leading us to think that the bloodhound and sleuthhound were the same animal. In a book published in Switzerland in 1554 the sleuth hound is also called 'blüthund' and 'canis Scoticus furum deprehensor' ('Scottish dog, thief catcher'). It is confirmed here and in other texts of the time that the two animals were the same, except that the