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The Sunday Film: The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes

BBC One
on BBC One London

starring
Robert Stephens , Colin Blakely with Irene Handl , Christopher Lee Tamara Toumanova Genevieve Page
Billy Wilder 's version of the most famous sleuth in literature is more liberally endowed with a sense of humour than the original and his detective powers are distinctly fallible. A lovely lady arrives dripping from the Thames and the Great Detective is enmeshed in a mystery that involves midgets, canaries and the Loch Ness monster.
Sherlock Holmes. ..ROBERT STEPHENS
Screenplay hy BILLY WILDER and i. A. L. DIAMOND. Based on the characters created by SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
Directed by BILLY WILDER. Films: page 17

Contributors

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Robert Stephens
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Colin Blakely
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Irene Handl
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Christopher Lee
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Tamara Toumanova
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Genevieve Page
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Billy Wilder
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Sherlock Holmes.
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Billy Wilder
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I. A. L. Diamond.
Unknown:
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Directed By:
Billy Wilder.
Dr John H Watson:
Colin Blakely
Mrs Hudson:
Irene Handl
Mycroft Holmes:
Christopher Lee
Petrova:
Tamara Toumanova
Gabrielle Valladon:
Genevieve Page
Rogozbin:
Clive Revill
Old lady:
Catherine Lacey
First gravedigger:
Stanley Holloway
Queen Victoria:
Mollie Maureen
Von Tirpitz:
Peter Madden
Source: Radio Times

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