All's fair in love and war in the riveting, original version of this ultimate battle of wits. Four-time Academy Award* Nominee Steuth pits tje formidableacting talents of Oscar** winners Michael Caineand Laurence Olivier tohether as their characters must out-play each other with nerve and guile.

Upper class crime writer Andrew Wyke (Olivier) learns of his wife's infidelity with immigrant Italian-English hairdresser (Caine) and invites him to his 16th Century mansion for what seems like a magnamious, if criminal, attempts at reconcilliation. But the games. But the games fanatic to much more in store for his younger and more virile nemesis. What ensues is a lethal game of cat where the upper-hand shifts as often as the friendishly clever

Who wins and who forfeits when the stakes are love and pride? In one of cinema's most memorable endings we learn there can be no winners.