Brand new factory sealed letterboxed widescreen presentation looks best in zoom mode on newer televisions. Out Of Print (OOP) in all formats (including the re-make) and no longer being manufactured.

This comes in a white, collectible clamshell hard plastic case and has liner notes on the reverse side of the artwork sleeve. Back lower right corner has a couple of small pieces of barely visible clear tape to repair shrinkwrap tear.

We come upon Andrew Wyke (Sir Laurence Olivier), the mystery writer, in an appropriate setting. He's in the middle of his vast garden, which is filled with shrubbery planted to form a maze. There is no way into or out of the maze--unless you know the secret. The better we come to know Andrew Wyke, the more this seems like the kind of garden he would have. Wyke is a game-player. His enormous Tudor country manor is filled with games, robots, performing dolls, dart boards, and chess tables. He also plays games with people.

One day poor Milo Tindle (Sir Michael Caine) comes for a meeting with him. Milo is everything Wyke detests:

Only half-British, with the wrong accent, and "brand-new country gentleman clothes." But Milo and Andrew's wife have fallen in love, and they plan to marry. So Andrew has a little scheme he wants to float. He is willing--indeed, happy--to give up his wife, but only if he can be sure she'll stay gone. He wants to be sure Milo can support her, and he suggests that Milo steal the Wyke family jewels and pawn them in Amsterdam. Then Milo will have a small fortune, and Andrew can collect the insurance.

Up to this point, everything in SLEUTH seems so matter-of-fact that there's no hint at just how complicated things will get later on. But they do get complicated, and deadly, and reality seems like a terribly fragile commodity. Andrew and Milo play games of such labyrinthine ferociousness that they eventually seem to forget all about Andrew's wife (and his mistress) and to be totally absorbed with stalking each other in a macabre game of cat 'n mouse.

SLEUTH is based on the long-running play by Anthony Shaffer, who also wrote Alfred Hitchcock's 'Frenzy'.