Audience Rating: Parental Guidance
Binding: DVD
EAN: 5050070020823
Format: PAL
Label: MGM Entertainment
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageFrenchOriginal LanguageRussianOriginal Language
Manufacturer: MGM Entertainment
Number Of Discs: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM Entertainment
Region Code: 2
Release Date: June 07, 2004
Running Time: 120 minutes
Studio: MGM Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: October 29, 1970

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Rating: - A memorable Sherlock Holmes adventure
A marvellously crafted and witty take on the legendary detective Sherlock Holmes for all fans of his. It is a slanted, almost subversive reading of him, giving us a real man, with real vices and defects, and a real sense of humour, and gives us a far from stodgy Dr. Watson, much more a real friend of his than in other versions. This is all intended to give us something new, something quite tantalising, and something quite rewarding. It utterly succeeds in this, and throws in an adventure dripping ... Read More

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Rating: - A forgotten gem!
Excellent take on Holmes. The interplay between Holmes & Watson is delightful. It may flag slightly towards the end, but this has class written all over it.

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Rating: - A truly great movie - but go for the Region 1 DVD!
A long-time dream project for Billy Wilder, beginning life as a musical, going through several years of rewrites and casting proposals - at one point even a vehicle for Peter O'Toole and Peter Sellers until the director found both impossible to make a deal with - before going into production as a hugely expensive $10m budgeted three-hour plus roadshow picture only to be cut down to little over two hours when exhibitors refused to book the uncut version, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes is something ... Read More

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Rating: - Grand even as an edited version
This film is sometimes described as a comedy, and while it has humourous bits (a more sardonic and biting form of humour most of the time), it has never really felt at home being classified as a comedy, in my estimation. I do like the rapid-fire wit that Holmes seems to have here (a bit more in abundance than in the canonical Conan Doyle stories), but the Holmes presented here is a bit more dark and brooding, more akin to the extra-canonical 'Seven Percent Solution' Holmes in many ways.

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Rating: - Oh so close
This offers a wonderfully intruiging narrative that is charmingly redolent of Conan Doyle's most relentlessly coiling stories. Additionally it chucks in some excellently human and humorous touches.

There are great performances from Richard Stephens as Holmes, and Christopher Lee as Mycroft.

It's a lovely film, which is spoiled by only two things: 1) the constantly, infuriatingly annoying Watson who is neither funny or endearing but is just an absolute persistent pain and who is completely ... Read More

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