Fresh
It is in large part old-fashioned, in that it's mile-wide and ancient-history Sherlock Holmes, but it's also handsomely produced and directed with incisiveness by Wilder.
Variety Staff, Variety
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
Anything But Elementary.
1970 · 2h 5m · PG-13
Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Directed by
Billy Wilder
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The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
Overview
When a bored Sherlock eagerly takes the case of Gabrielle Valladon following an attempt on her life, the search for her missing husband leads to Loch Ness and the legendary monster.
Director and cast
- Billy Wilder Director
- Robert Stephens as Sherlock Holmes
- Colin Blakely as Dr. John Watson
- Geneviève Page as Gabrielle Valadon
- Christopher Lee as Mycroft Holmes
- Tamara Toumanova as Madame Petrova
- Clive Revill as Nikolai Rogozhin
- Irene Handl as Mrs. Hudson
- Mollie Maureen as Queen Victoria
- Stanley Holloway as Gravedigger
- Catherine Lacey as Woman in Wheelchair
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
87%
Tomatometer
Fresh
A wonderful, cruelly underrated film.
Geoff Andrew, Time Out
Fresh
Wilder's second most underrated masterpiece.
Andrew Sarris, New York Observer
Rotten
Before the movie is 20 minutes old, Wilder has settled for simply telling a Sherlock Holmes adventure.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Fresh
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes is comparatively mild Billy Wilder and rather daring Sherlock Holmes, not a perfect mix, perhaps, but a fond and entertaining one.
Vincent Canby, New York Times
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