The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes

#15 in my Ranking of Billy Wilder movies.

With knowing winks and nods, Billy Wilder tells a witty and fun Sherlock Holmes tale. It was originally planned and even shot to be a much larger movie with more individual episodes (which made cutting it down from three and a half hours to two hours and change a lot easier, much to Billy Wilder’s bitter acquiescence), but even in this shortened format, the movie is a fun adventure for the Victorian detective.

What survived the cut was two episodes....