Sleuth (2007 film) Branagh film, stating that the new version "has every ounce of entertainment drained from it" and called the film "unbelievably bad". Patrick Doyle is the composer and the music is performed by the London Symphony Orchestra. The soundtrack is produced by Varèse Sarabande and was released in October 2007. 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
The Vicar (music producer) "that music and music alone should take centre stage without the current obsession with personality and celebrity, nor with the damaging thieving hand of the mainstream music business." The core of the project is a semi-fictional/pseudonymous record producer referred to only as "The Vicar" (although over the course of the stories, his first name is occasionally revealed as "David"). In the Chronicles, novels and video blogs (presented as "surreal tales from the underbelly of the music industry") the Vicar is portrayed as a British eccentric who, in parallel to his production career, works as an industry troubleshooter and sleuth (aided