I have to admit that when I first watched this movie I was like Watson, I really had no idea what was going on. It takes Holmes about half an hour longer to solve the case than it takes us, and poor Watson never catches on." But they pass up the chance and bore us while Holmes laboriously unravels a case involving the midget acrobats, a missing husband, Trappist monks, the Loch Ness monster, dead canaries and a copper ring that has turned green. The Holmes character, creeping around with his magnifying glass and (Watson tells us at the film's beginning) identifying a murderer by measuring the extent to which the parsley had sunk into the butter on a warm summer day, is a promising subject for the kind of satirical examination we expect from Wilder and his frequent co-author, I. Roger goes on to say "The same kind of obviousness takes the fun out of The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, and that's a shame. He said "But before the movie is 20 minutes old, Wilder has settled for simply telling a Sherlock Holmes adventure." It also had midgets, canaries, monks, the Queen and the Loch Ness monster.īut most interestingly it had an vulnerable Holmes, outsmarted by a woman who he seems to fall in love with. The movie had an interesting, twisting plot with a nice part for Christopher Lee as Mycroft Holmes. Actually, I don’t dislike women, I merely distrust them.” He says to Watson, “You’ve given the reader the distinct impression that I am a misogynist. It showed us a Holmes who had been disappointed in love. It showed a Holmes who was human, but it also remained faithful to the Arthur Conan Doyle character. It showed the private life of Holmes, the life that didn’t make it into the pages of Strand magazine. Directed by the great Billy Wilder, this movie brings us the iconic Holmes, playing the violin, smoking his pipe and reaching for his needle in times of pain and boredom. I also really liked this film that has to be the best of all the Sherlock Holmes movies. I've always loved the Basil Rathbone Sherlock Holmes' movies.
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