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
Baretta #42 on the Adult Contemporary Chart, while it "bubbled under the Hot 100" at #101. After its initial run in syndication beginning in 1979, the series later re-appeared on TV Land in 1999 as part of a package of series licensed from Universal. Me-TV aired reruns of "Baretta" on Saturday afternoons in 2007. On October 29, 2002, Universal Studios Home Entertainment released the first season of "Baretta" on Region 1 DVD in the United States. "Mad" magazine spoofed the series as "Barfetta". Baretta Baretta is an American detective television series which ran on ABC from 1975–78. The show was a