Episode 622: The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970)

The Projection Booth Podcast

The Projection Booth

Film Reviews, Film Interviews, Film History, Tv & Film

4.8 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2023

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

The game is afoot as we kick off a month looking at four films featuring Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s consulting detective, Sherlock Holmes. One of the most adapted characters in the history of cinema, we’ve all grown up with a variety of actors and interpretations of Holmes. In this series we’re looking at four from the 1970s and, in this episode, we are discussing Billy WIlder’s 1970 film The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes.

The film stars Robert Stephens as Holmes and Colin Blakely as Watson along with Christopher Lee as Mycroft Holmes and Geraldine Page as the mysterious Gabrielle Valladon.

Aaron Peterson (The Hollywood Outsider) and playwright and author David MacGregor join Mike all month for some Sherlockian talk.

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0:00.0	Hold your ears, folks. It's showtime.
0:08.6	People pay good money to see this movie.
0:10.9	When they go out to a theater, they want cold sodas, hot popcorn, and no monsters in the projection booth.
0:17.3	Everyone pretend podcasting isn't boring.
0:20.2	Shut it off.
0:25.2	Turn it off.
0:26.6	Billy Wilder, the man who gave you the apartment and some like it hot, now reveals the private life of Sherlock Holmes.
0:49.1	Dr. Watson in his lifetime recorded some 60 cases demonstrating the singular gift of his friend Sherlock Holmes.
0:56.0	But there were other adventures which for reasons of discretion were withheld from the public.
1:01.0	Adventures which involved matters of a delicate and sometimes scandalous nature.
1:06.0	The private life of Sherlock Holmes was anything but elementary.
1:18.4	My dear Sherlock, there are certain affairs that do not come within the province of the private detective.
1:26.2	The public has a right to know these things.
1:29.5	Sherlock Holmes was a man of curious habits.
1:32.3	And eccentric tastes.
1:34.8	Aren't you ashamed of yourself?
1:37.3	Thoroughly.
1:38.5	But this will take care of it.
1:41.9	And not always what he seemed to be.
1:45.2	You have described me as six foot four, whereas I'm barely six foot one.
1:49.0	Well, that says you are shorter than she thought.
1:52.0	Oh, I didn't mean to be.
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