Streaming The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes Online
Mardi, septembre 14th, 2010 |
Streaming The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes Online.
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This film is a cult classic and well deserving of that status. It’s one of my favourite films and for YEARS we were promised the excised footage would be replaced and we could finally see this marvellous film in the form Billy Wilder meant it to be. Well, I am sure like all fans of the film, we waited with hope that NOW they would include all these scenes. And while the film transfer is great and I was sad to see there is NO footage to speak of to be added. There are snippets of film of other adventures, stills flashed over a poor soundtrack, but according to MGM there is no extra scenes, they have been lost.
WHAT A DISAPPOINTMENT!
The film is still a must for Billy Wilder, Robert Stephens, Chris Lee or Sherlock Holmes Fans. But just do not expect all the lost footage to be restored.
It is a very very funny look at Holmes, a more human look perhaps. This is a mirthful look at the adventures of Sherlock Holmes, lovingly portrayed with a twinkle in his eye by the late great Sir Robert Stephens. The adventures are fun (the ones we see) but mainly centre around a woman’s missing husband. Toss in several hundred canaries, the Loch Ness Monster, missing midgets - the Tumbling Pickaloes to be precise - the mysterious red runner, Queen Victoria, some Trappist monks, an ageing ballerina that does not ‘look 39′ - that is because she is 49!! -who wants Holmes to father her child and an amnesiac damsel in distress that temps Holmes, all done with the best British wit and droll sense of humour…and you have a mix that cannot miss.
Incisive writing and direction, this fill pay homage to Holmes and Watson, with tongue firmly planted in cheek…
Even so, the currently version is a true gem, and so overlooked,
all we have left of Billy Wilder genius vision.
It’s a sad commentary on the films featuring Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes, that two of my favorites have nothing to do with Doyle at all. The first is They Might Be Giants (with Joanne Woodard a woman named Watson and George C. Scott as a man who believes he is Sherlock Holmes) and Billy Wilder’s late period masterpiece. Stuffed with Wilder’s characteristic cynical wit, sophisticated dialog and outstanding performances The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes has been out of circulation for too long.
MGM’s terrific reissue features a number of extras that make this edition worth waiting for. While it doesn’t have the cut scenes reintegrated into the film, it does feature a deleted scenes gallery that suggests how the film might have been had it not been butchered prior to general release. Sadly, there’s much missing from this “lost” footage and, as a result, we don’t get a restoration as much as a “recreation” with bits and pieces and script segments.
While this isn’t the best transfer I’ve seen, the overall look is still pretty good. Yes, the look of the film is a bit washed out (not sure if that’s due to the transfer or film stock but, knowing about the instability of film stock and less than pristine storage conditions many of these films were kept in, I’d vote for negative deterioation)but it is presented in its original aspect ratio. The overall presentation is quite good considering what MGM had to work with and, barring a restoration by someone like Robert Harris, this is probably the best version we’ll ever see.
Christopher Lee shines during his brief screen time as Holmes brother. Lee did eventually get to play Holmes as well so it’s rather funny to see him playing Holmes brother (after also playing Baskerville in Terry Fisher’s Hound of the Baskervilles). Robert Stephens IS Holmes in this film. He lives and breathes the character in ways that Rathbone and others never quite did. I’ve seen some criticism of Colin Blakely’s Watson here but find it to be little more than critcial bluster. Blakely’s take on Watson manages to both tip the hat to Nigel Bruce and satirize the way the character was emasculated in most of the film adaptions of Doyle’s work.
Oh, I’d like to add The Seven Percent Solution to my list of great Holmes adventures not written by Doyle but, sadly, it isn’t available in widescreen(at least I haven’t been able to find it) on DVD.
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