With Kenneth Branagh's disastrous re-imagining still fresh (if that's the word) in the minds of the few who bothered to see it, I suppose now is as good a time as any to remember when the title Sleuth wasn't synonymous with suckitude. Branagh's film shares with Joseph L. Mankiewicz's awesome 1972 original — the source of last week's quote — little more than a star (Michael Caine) and the basic plot as laid down by author Anthony Shaffer. The surrounding junk is all Branagh's and screenwriter Harold Pinter's. At least we can comfort ourselves with the idea that, ten years from now, if movie-watchers want to check out Caine in Sleuth, they'll mostly likely be seeing him opposite Sir Lawrence Olivier, in perhaps his most entertaining performance. Congrats to those who guessed correctly.
This week's quote contains multiple lines of dialogue, but don't let that throw you:
"What’s your name?"
"Davis."
"Mine’s McCardle. . . well, so long."
"So long."
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