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) 10th for the Caroline Islands. A submarine contact on 12 January enlivened the voyage, and a submarine alert soon after "Baretta" entered Ulithi lagoon sent everyone to general quarters before she had moored. Later that day, "Baretta" sailed for Eniwetok. On the 16th, her crew put out an engine room fire in little more than an hour; but it left her engines inoperable. As a result, "Cliffrose" (AN 42) towed her sister ship for the remainder of the voyage. Arriving on 21 January, "Baretta" spent five days under temporary repair alongside "Oahu" (ARG 5). She got underway under her own