The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes

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The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970)

PG-13 10/29/1970 (US) Mystery, Comedy, Crime, Adventure, History 2h 5m

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The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes. Anything But Elementary.

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Holmes and Dr. Watson take on the case of a beautiful woman whose husband has vanished. The investigation proves strange indeed, involving six missing midgets, villainous monks, a Scottish castle, the Loch Ness monster, and covert naval experiments.

Billy Wilder

Director, Writer
Arthur Conan Doyle

Characters
I. A. L. Diamond

Writer

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Robert Stephens

Sherlock Holmes
Colin Blakely

Dr. John Watson
Geneviève Page

Gabrielle Valadon
Christopher Lee

Mycroft Holmes
Tamara Toumanova

Madame Petrova
Clive Revill

Nikolai Rogozhin
Irene Handl

Mrs. Hudson
Mollie Maureen

Queen Victoria
Stanley Holloway

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A review by John Chard

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Written by John Chard on June 2, 2019

Sherlock Holmes the Man Vs Sherlock Holmes the Legend.

The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes is directed by Billy Wilder who co-writes the screenplay and story with I. A. L. Diamond. Based on characters created by Arthur Conan Doyle, it stars Robert Stephens, Geneviève Page, Colin Blakely, Christopher Lee & Irene Handl. Miklós Rózsa scores the music and cinematography is by Christopher Challis.

There were cases that Sherlock Holmes worked on that were deemed of a "scandalous nature" and not for public knowledge. But Dr. Watson made journals, and as Watson's private deposit box is opened som... read the rest.

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