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The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
1970
**½
Director: Billy Wilder
Cast: Robert Stephens, Geneviève Page, Colin Blakely, Christopher Lee, Irene Handl, Clive Revill

Billy Wilder's ambitious but flawed comedy tries to dig deeper into the character and the myth of Sherlock Holmes. This long jumble of satire, detective story and spy drama which features the Loch Ness monster is not on a par with his best work.