Famed mystery author Andrew Wyke, a lover of games and theatre, invites London hairdresser Milo Tindle to his country estate for the weekend. After Andrew reveals that he knows of Milo’s affair with his wife, an elaborate game of cat and mouse begins—a battle of wits with potentially deadly results.

For what would be his final film, Joseph L. Mankiewicz (All About Eve) has the tremendous Laurence Olivier and Michael Caine face off in this engaging and engrossing cat-and-mouse mystery. An intelligently, tightly-plotted thriller and a true classic of the genre, full of twists and turns.