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The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes

Screening on Film
Directed by Billy Wilder.
With Robert Stephens, Colin Blakely, Geneviève Page.
UK, 1970, 35mm, color, 125 min.

A brooding period piece, Sherlock Holmes marked a radical departure for co-writers Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond with its revisionist portrait of the great detective as a towering, tortured egoist and drug addict with homosexual inclinations. The recently reassembled version of the film restores the full dimensions of Wilder's bold intertwining of a classic detective thriller with a nuanced psychological study. Wilder's careful attention to details of gesture, costumes and sets is evident throughout this ambitious film, which also boasts a darkly comic and sophisticated screenplay.

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