Word: sleuth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sleuth. Anthony Shaffer's Tony Award winner directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, in his own words "the oldest whore in the business," starring Laurence Oliver 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...
...movie not only lacks coherent narrative, it lacks any form at all. Rather, for whatever success it may have trained its sights upon, the film seems to depend heavily on audience gullibility vis a vis "art at the movies" built up by the new media hypes. 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. Garden Cinema...
Clinton, like the Laurence Olivier character in Sleuth, is famous for his love of intricate parlor games, and each night his guests are required to endure a cleverly plotted, punningly clued hare-and-hounds chase designed to reveal their past transgressions-and, it is hinted, Sheila's murderer...
...arrests, he saw some Watergate material in a folder destined for C.R.P. Director John Mitchell. He also came across receipts for funds distributed to Liddy and an operative known as "Sedan Chair 2," who may have been a plant in Humphrey headquarters. Introduced by Magruder as a "super sleuth," Liddy once bounded into the office with a "great idea." He wanted to hire demonstrators to disrupt the Democratic Convention, including a woman who would undress...
...recognition of his Thespian talents, he was more or less seriously offered a leading role in the Broadway production of Sleuth; but he plans to stick to politics despite his disastrous showing in last year's presidential primaries, after he switched from Republican to Democrat. Now 51, he may run for Governor against his archfoe Nelson Rockefeller in 1974, or he may wait until 1976 to challenge Conservative-Republican Senator James Buckley. By then, he can only hope that New Yorkers will have forgotten how much they disliked him as a mayor...