Sleuth

1972 movie with Lawrence Olivier and Michael Caine

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Based on a play of the same name and also written by the playwright as well, this story features Oliver as andrew Wyke whose wife has an affair with Milo Tindle. {Caine}. Wyke proposes to Tindle that they stage a fake Jewelry robbery so that Wyke can get the insurance money and Tindle can afford to keep Wyke wife in money. However it appears that Wyke shoots and kills  Tindle. In a series of plot twists it is revealed that Wyke shot Tindle with a blank bullet. Tindle gets his revenge first by disgusing himself as a plodding Police Inspector and subjecting Wyke into thinking that he has really killed Tindle; then he reveales himself and further humiliates Wyke into thinking that  Tindle has left clues that inplicated Wyke in the killing of a woman he has been having an afair with just before the police are to arrive. Tindle reveales the truth that he has actaully killed no one and that he has revealed the fake jewelry plot to the Police. He then does the one thing Wyke cannot ever forgive-he sneers at Wyke greatest fictional creation Sir John Lord St Meridew. As Tindle is about to leave with Mrs. Wyke fur coat, Wyke shoots him for real this time--just as the Police come to the front door. As Tindle is dying, he tells Wyke to rember to tell the police it was all just a game..and presses a control box which sets all of Wyke inventions to laugh at him...just as the Curtain comes down in a cliffhanger ending...while Wyke will be arrested..it is unknown if he is going to be aquitted or not.

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In 2007 this movie was remade with Caine as Wyke and Jude Law was Milo