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) and released more chain, enabling the landing craft to free herself. During the night, the wind velocity increased until, at 0100 on the 18th, "Baretta" clocked it at between 81 and 89 knots. Yard and landing craft in her vicinity continually dragged anchors, but "Baretta's" bow anchor held. By 0730, the wind quieted to 30 knots, and "Baretta" headed for the lee of Awajii Island to avoid heavy swells coming from the northeast. The storm abated that afternoon, and "Baretta" returned to Wakanoura Wan and surveyed the devastation: three "LST's" and a "YMS" lay stranded on the northern beaches of