Talk:Sleuth (1972 film)

Also a classic video game, no? --Mister Tattle 09:04, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Sleuth (computer game) —jiy (talk) 02:36, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

Characters
What evidence is there for calling Wyke a "long-established English country gentleman"? From his manner and affluent surroundings he may appear one, but the manner could well be adopted and the surroundings acquired. Shaffer may even have had a particular English crime writer in mind, Dennis Wheatley who bought Milton Court. Hors-la-loi 17:53, 6 November 2011 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hors-la-loi (talk • contribs)
 * Point corrected after nearly six years. Clifford Mill (talk) 07:16, 26 September 2017 (UTC)

Cast?
Were Alec Cawthorne, John Matthews, and Eve Channing really in the film? All I can remember is Caine and Olivier. Perhaps the inclusion of these names in the cast list was a red herring?


 * correct. There are no such people as Alec Cawthorne or Eve Channing. I added information accordingly. I am a bit at a loss about "john matthews", as the man seems to be real, but I don't remember him in the movie. I also don't have the movie, so I can't tell. Dietwald 10:19, 28 June 2006 (UTC)


 * It was intended to reveal as little about the movie as possible so as to make it a complete surprise to the audience. Hence the false cast at the beginning of the film consisted of fictional people playing roles that did not exist. To have revealed that there were only two actors in the film, would have quite spoiled the surprise.


 * I will add this note also to the article. Yakksoho 05:31, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

Deleted the (Caine and Olivier) reference about being the whole cast nominated for Oscar for the same reasons cited above (this is, avoid spoilers on the plot) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Walmedo (talk • contribs) 11:42, 3 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Per Wikipedia content guidelines we do not omit or delete any information just because it constitutes a spoiler. Spoilers are treated like any other information. Mmyers1976 (talk) 12:10, 3 August 2016 (UTC)

Missing citations throughout
Tagged for cleanup; see WP:Cite and WP:NOR. This article quotes from sources not identified and thus unverified and unverifiable; please supply citations in notes throughout as needed. Thank you. --NYScholar 20:30, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 05:29, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

St. John Lord Merridew
The main character in Andrew Wyke's novels—Sinjin Lord Merridew—is actually St. John Lord Merridew. "Sinjin" is a UK pronounciation of St. John. This is difficult information to come by, so it is being noted here. Tisn&#39;t (talk) 23:17, 25 August 2014 (UTC)

Deathtrap/Sleuth plot similarity
Ring Cinema deleted my text noting the similarities between this film and Deathtrap (film). I had provided multiple sources, including reviews by Roger Ebert and Janet Maslin and several published books, which explicitly note the similarity between these two Michael Caine films. Ring Cinema first deleted my sources, then deleted the sentence they were supporting. Ring Cinema performed both these deletions AFTER I opened a discussion on this issue on the Deathtrap article's Talk page. Coming to this page and performing the exact same deletion when he fully knew I had opened a dialogue with him to try to resolve this conflict dispute verges on edit warring. I have opened a Dispute Resolution Noticeboard discussion on this issue as it pertains to Deathtrap, and the resolution of that discussion will be binding to this article as well. Mmyers1976 (talk) 19:56, 5 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Actually, the citations don't agree on the nature of the similarity. It's not a good practice to single out critics in the lead section either. This proposal has not received any support in the discussion at Deathtrap, so I think until there is a consensus to include it in the lead it is correct to leave it out. I don't see where you are opening a dialogue, actually. You are simply ignoring everyone's objections. I believe I offered the idea of including the material elsewhere in the article instead of cutting it altogether, so perhaps you could take my suggestion. --Ring Cinema (talk) 04:31, 6 August 2015 (UTC)

My bad for not providinga link to the Deathtrap discussion when I started this section; we should be confining our discussion to one Talk page for simplicity. I will copy Ring Cinema's latest comments over there and address them there. Anyone coming after, please discuss there, not here. Thanks, Mmyers1976 (talk) 14:12, 6 August 2015 (UTC)