Word: sleuth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Perry Mason should be an easy money-maker, CBS must have thought. I hope they're wrong. I hope the new show fails before it molds Perry Mason and his colleagues into forgettable characters. The Mason created in 1933 by Erle Stanley Gardner was a volatile, often unscrupulous lawyer-sleuth. Raymond Burr toned the man down, but added a dynamism of his own which made Mason the sort of fascinating static character best suited to an hour-long TV show. Monte Markham, though somewhat better in the second episode than in the first, appears to have whittled Mason down further...
...Sleuth. with Laurence Olivier and Michael Caine. Games, games, games. Is that all the aristocracy has to do with its time? Olivier, your decadent last of the line, is a mastermind at them, but he goes too far when he stoops to play beneath his class. Because Caine, his scapegoat, is still an up and comer who hasn't learned not to take life so seriously. Central Cinema...
...Sleuth. with Laurence Olivier and Michael Caine. Games, games, games. Is that all the aristocracy has to do with its time? Olivier, your decadent last of the line, is a mastermind at them, but he goes too far when he stoops to play beneath his class. Because Caine, his scapegoat, is still an up and comer who hasn't learned not to take life so seriously. Central Cinema...
...ocean-yacht, the setting for most of the action, is everything you might expect to find in a position of honor at an Orange County boat show. It is a distracting picture of gaudiness, pannelled cabins and wall to wall carpeting, mansion sized bedrooms and an invisible crew. Like Sleuth's manor, the yacht is stocked with games. On seeing the living room for the first time, Dyan Cannon remarks, "Who designed this place -- Parker Brothers?" Ross dots the boat with dartboards and three dimensional chess sets, but Sleuth much better exploited the idea of the games player. Sheila...
...Sleuth. Anthony Shaffer's Tony Award winner directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, in his own words "the oldest whore in the business," starring Laurence Olivier and Michael Caine. It is an actor's movie. A highly crafted mystery of a movie whose lesson seems to be that crime doesn't pay. Harvard Square Cinema...