Billy Wilder takes a few liberties, but for the most part stays true to the character and produces an entertaining mystery/thriller. It's not especially funny, and the opening is squandered on what is essentially a half-hour long "LOL GAY" joke, but other than that it's sufficiently enjoyable. Robert Stephens makes a decent Holmes, and Colin Blakely's Watson is preferable to Nigel Bruce's bumbling buffoon portrayal. Some nice shots of the Scottish landscape, too.

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What Altman did for Philip Marlowe, Wilder did for Sherlock Holmes.

First 20 minutes through me as I felt I was watching a Three's Company episode. Seems like Billy Wilder tried too hard to make it edgy and exploitive. Uneven but good.

Billy Wilder does Sherlock. The results are not ideal, but they're worth seeing

# 905

2006 silivri'de, cnbc-e'de & Robert Stephens'in Sherlock Holmes karakterine cok iyi burundugunu ve tam kitaptaki gibi bir karakter halini aldigini hatirliyorum -bir kac yil once izledim-. Holmes'un metaryalist dusunceleri on planda.Canavarin, gercekten canavar olabilecegine seyirci inansa bile, Holmes, gercekciligi elden birakmiyor.Ayrica Holmes'un neden kadinlara karsi temkinli davrandigi cok guzel aciklanmis.Bill Wilder'dan bence cok guzel bir uyarlama...

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This original tale of London's greatest detective is muddled at times, largely a victim of the bloat that struck Hollywood productions when dragging out their running time was the chief tactic for making them feel like events. The plotting, languid as it may be, is still rock solid. There are nice performances by Robert Stephens as Holmes and Colin Blakely as Watson.

Wilder's drilling into Holmes's hush-hush side (his cocaine addiction, his rumored homosexuality, his broken heart) has a feeling of special privilege and intimacy, rather than irreverence and iconoclasm as it might have had. The opening examination of the deceased detective's personal effects is practically breath-taking; and for a while the movie looks as though it might hold up.

A well-written, cleanly made, often funny and sometimes outrageous bit of mystery. It's hard to find any major faults, but it doesn't thrill me quite like most of Wilder's pictures.

Underestimated. Probably the best Sherlock Holmes movie of all time. Funny, with a plot that is both improbable and--at least for the life of the film--credible as well.

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I do not remember when I saw last time this bad casting, characterizing and written story. There's a lot of interesting sides of Mr. Holmes, but the film itself is an almost complete disapointment. After so much of ludicrousness the story appears to conclude everything very nicely and I have to add quite much of extra points for good ending and a general ideas of the story. But still majority of the film is baloney.

The first half hour is absolutely brilliant comedy writing, but from there it turns into a more standard Holmes mystery and loses some, though far from all, of what makes it special. The obviousness of the mystery is a bit disappointing but it's still a lot of fun and well conceived.

relies too heavily on things holmes himself cant deduce--which really is the biggest plus about a holmes story, his logical deduction. it's a watchable movie that with a less grandiose culmination could have better shown off both holmes' and wilder's abilities.

A little aimless, but not terrible.

Not My Favourite Billy Wilder Movie But It Is Okay