La vie privée de Sherlock Holmes
Titre original : The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
- 1970
- Tous publics
- 2h 5min
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7,0/10
13 k
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Quand un Holmes qui s'ennuie se saisit du cas de Gabrielle Valladon après une tentative d'homicide, la recherche du mari disparu le mène au Loch Ness et au monstre légendaire.Quand un Holmes qui s'ennuie se saisit du cas de Gabrielle Valladon après une tentative d'homicide, la recherche du mari disparu le mène au Loch Ness et au monstre légendaire.Quand un Holmes qui s'ennuie se saisit du cas de Gabrielle Valladon après une tentative d'homicide, la recherche du mari disparu le mène au Loch Ness et au monstre légendaire.
- Récompenses
- 3 nominations
Geneviève Page
- Gabrielle Valladon
- (as Genevieve Page)
Histoire
Le saviez-vous
- AnecdotesBy the time of filming, Sir Christopher Lee had become famous as Count Dracula. When he and Billy Wilder walked on the shores of Loch Ness at dusk, with bats circling overhead, Wilder said to him, "You must feel quite at home here."
- GaffesThe events start in August 1887 and apparently take place in the following weeks or, at most, months. However, Mycroft Holmes tells Queen Victoria that Kaiser Wilhelm II had Count Zeppelin working on dirigibles that could drop bombs on Buckingham Palace. Wilhelm II did not become Kaiser until 15 June 1888, and Zeppelin did not start constructing rigid airships until the 1890s.
- Versions alternativesOriginally released at 125 minutes; the US laserdisc version adds 12 minutes of unreleased footage, including a sequence known as "The Dreadful Business of the Naked Honeymooners", featuring Jonathan Cecil and Nicole Shelby
- ConnexionsFeatured in The Many Faces of Sherlock Holmes (1985)
- Bandes originalesConcerto for Violin and Orchestra Opus 24
by Miklós Rózsa
Commentaire à la une
Thoroughly civilised, delightful entertainment
Billy Wilder's take on the world's most famous detective is both painstakingly faithful and sardonically subversive to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's idiossyncratic creation. Presented as a case that loyal companion John Watson duly recorded but requested remain secret until long after his death, in which Holmes aids a Belgian woman find her missing husband, a mining engineer hired by an apparently non-existant English company, it makes clever use of the rulebook Conan Doyle set down while at the same time undermining it from within. The title and the plot may seem misleading at first - the first half hour especially seems at odds with what comes afterwards - but in fact if you're a Holmes fan you'll quickly realise that this is as close to romance as the detective would ever allow, and Wilder tells it through a masterful accumulation of small touches that only someone as meticulous as the man himself would notice. Script-wise, it's a cracking mystery in the best Doyle tradition, with all the time-honoured twists and turns present and correct. The acting is also up to Wilder's usual standards; Stephens and Blakely are an engaging duo as a bored Holmes and a bumbling Watson, and there's a hysterically funny supporting turn by the always underrated Revill as a Russian ballet impresario. Wilder's trademark pointed cynicism fits the English witticism particularly well, even if at times it all seems a bit too modern for the peaceful Victorian surroundings, but it is quite ironic to see him chiding Britain's stiff-upper-lip, old-fashioned morality when the film seems to be an "old timers' movie" entirely out of sync with its own time. Still, it's hard to find fault in such a thoroughly civilised and delightful entertainment.
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- R. J.
- 30 mars 2003
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- The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
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- Budget
- 10 000 000 $US (estimé)
- Montant brut mondial
- 19 773 $US
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