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Question: I was reading recently in your column about Sleuth and got to wondering: Wasn't it remade with Michael Caine as the author and Christopher Reeve as the younger man?


Answer: Although Deathtrap (1982) isn't a remake of Sleuth (1972), there are similarities, first and foremost that it's also an adaptation of a stage play (by Ira Levin rather than Anthony Shaffer) and it focuses on the cat-and-mouse head games between a successful older writer (Michael Caine, who played the young buck opposite Laurence Olivier in Sleuth) and a younger man (Christopher Reeve). But the motivations are different, the games rather less clever and the wife is seen in the flesh (and played by Dyan Cannon), rather than just in photographs.

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