The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes

The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
1970 film poster by Robert McGinnis
Directed byBilly Wilder
Written byI. A. L. Diamond
Billy Wilder
Produced byI. A. L. Diamond
Billy Wilder
StarringRobert Stephens
Geneviève Page
Colin Blakely
Christopher Lee
CinematographyChristopher Challis
Edited byErnest Walter
Music byMiklós Rózsa
Production
companies
Compton Films
The Mirisch Corporation
Phalanx Productions
Distributed byUnited Artists
Release dates
  • 29 October 1970 (1970-10-29) (New York)
  • 3 December 1970 (1970-12-03) (UK)
Running time
125 minutes
CountriesUnited Kingdom
United States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$10,000,000 (est.)

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. The film offers an affectionate, slightly parodic look at Sherlock Holmes, and draws a distinction between the "real" Holmes and the character portrayed by Watson in his stories for The Strand magazine. It stars Robert Stephens as Holmes and Colin Blakely as Doctor Watson.

Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss, the creators and writers of the BAFTA and Emmy Award-winning series Sherlock, credited The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes as a source of inspiration for their show.[1][2]

Michael Hardwick and Mollie Hardwick authored a novelization of the film.[3]

  1. ^ Michael Leader (21 July 2010). "Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss interview: Sherlock". Den of Geek. Retrieved 14 April 2016.
  2. ^ "How well do Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat know each other? We asked Steven's son Louis to find out. First up, what's their favourite film?". Sherlock channel. 18 November 2016. Archived from the original on 13 December 2021. Retrieved 18 November 2016 – via YouTube.
  3. ^ Hardy, Phil (1997). The BFI Companion to Crime. University of California Press. p. 168. ISBN 9780520215382.

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