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
HMS Sleuth (P261) "Sleuth" was built by Cammell Laird and launched on 6 July 1944. So far she has been the only ship of the Royal Navy to bear the name "Sleuth". The boat operated in the Pacific Far East for most of her wartime career, often in company with her sister, HMS "Solent". Together they sank fifteen Japanese sailing vessels and the Japanese auxiliary minesweeper "Wa 3". "Sleuth" survived the Second World War and continued in service. On 13 June 1952 she collided with the destroyer HMS "Zephyr", while leaving Portland harbour. She put her stern through the side of "Zephyr" as