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  2. The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes is a 1970 DeLuxe Color film in Panavision written and produced by Billy Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond, and directed by Wilder.

  3. Apr 26, 2020 · Although it is often preoccupied with probing Holmes’s sexuality, as well as his surprising emotional vulnerability and fallibility, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes also examines the place of the “classical” detective within the changing world of the late 19th century (at some level it brings him “up-to-date” to show just how ...

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  4. Sad, funny and cynical, Billy Wilder's 1970 movie presents a classically Holmesian mystery—a missing person case which ends with the Loch Ness Monster—as cover for an exploration of the great...

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  5. Chekhov's Gag: Holmes makes a dismissive joke about a missing persons case he's been offered; later, it turns out to be part of the conspiracy. The missing persons, a troupe of circus midgets, were hired in secret to crew the Diogenes Club's mini-submarine.

  6. Billy Wilder’s “The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes” is disappointingly lacking in bite and sophistication, the first two qualities we’d expect from the director of “The Apartment” and “The Fortune Cookie.” It begins promisingly enough with Sherlock being offered five pounds to trace six missing midget acrobats and complaining ...

  7. Sep 10, 2012 · A wonderful, cruelly underrated film. Although there are some terrifically funny moments, and on one level the Wilder/Diamond conception of Conan Doyle's hero does tend to debunk the myth of the...

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