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Released
1972 · FILM

Sleuth

A game‑obsessed husband lures his wife’s secret lover to his home, determined to outwit him in a deadly battle of minds where the stakes are life and death.

Think of the perfect crime... Then go one step further.

Written by
Rated
MPA · PG
Runtime
138 min
MysteryThriller
Streaming on
  • Paramount+

Synopsis

A man who loves games and theatre invites his wife

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 15

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Richard MardenShot by Oswald MorrisScored by John AddisonDesigned by Ken Adam

Box Office

1972 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 1.6× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$5.8M

Budget$3.5M
Worldwide gross$5.8M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Mord mit kleinen Fehlernde
  • La huellaes
  • Le Limierfr
  • Gli insospettabiliit

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