Starring Robert Stephens, Colin Blakely, Genevieve Page, Christopher Lee, Tamara Toumanova
Directed by Billy Wilder
(actor & director credits courtesy IMDB.com)
An untold story of Sherlock Holmes is unearthed fifty years after the death of Doctor Watson, which concerns a search in Scotland for a missing engineer that leads to a sighting of the Loch Ness Monster.
Ace director Billy Wilder, famed for films like Some Like It Hot, One,Two,Three, The Apartment, Sabrina, and Sunset Boulevard, brings a new Sherlock Holmes film to the screen and enlivens the first part of it with some amusing interchanges as a famed ballerina seeks the brilliant Holmes to help provide her with an heir. After that, the story and direction take on a more serious tone with a compelling mystery well-written and staged. The film has excellent production design, a fine score by Miklos Rozsa, and is wonderfully cast with Stephens and Blakely giving rich characterizations to the roles of Holmes and Watson, with Lee offering welcome support as Holmes' brother Mycroft. Although I prefer the earlier Holmes films and actors, this is still an earnest and rewarding production and a fine tribute to the legendary character by Wilder and his team.
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