Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 91 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom, United States
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
After spending decades living in the shadow of his more famous and successful sibling, Consulting Detective Sigerson Holmes is called upon to help solve a crucial case that leads him on a hilarious trail of false identities, stolen documents, secret codes... and exposed backsides.
- spoof
- sherlock holmes
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Gene Wilder
Sigerson Holmes
Madeline Kahn
Jenny Hill
Marty Feldman
Sgt. Orville Stanley Sacker
Dom DeLuise
Eduardo Gambetti
- Leo McKern — Moriarty
- Roy Kinnear — Moriarty's Assistant
- John Le Mesurier — Lord Redcliff
- Douglas Wilmer — Sherlock Holmes
- Michael Crane — Renato
- Albert Finney — Man in Audience at Opera
- Thorley Walters — Dr. Watson
- George Silver — Bruner
- Nicholas Smith — Hunkston
- John Hollis — Moriarty's Gunman
- Aubrey Morris — Coach Driver
- Directed
- Gene Wilder
- Written
- Gene Wilder
Production
- Rating
- 6.0 / 10 · 175 ratings
- Studio
- 20th Century Fox
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
movie · 1970The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
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Mr. Holmes
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