The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes 1970  PG, 125 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Billy Wilder
Cast: Robert Stephens, Colin Blakely, Genevieve Page, Christopher Lee, Tamara Toumanova, Clive Revill, Irene Handl, Stanley Holloway, Mollie Maureen, Catherine Lacey
This Billy Wilder film is effective as it studies the famed sleuth, though it is often slow-paced. In it, he solves several cases to the amazement of Dr. Watson, but not to the amazement of the audience.
|  | |
Twisted Nerve 1968  N/R, 118 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Roy Boulting
Cast: Hayley Mills, Hywel Bennett, Billie Whitelaw, Phyllis Calvert, Frank Finlay, Barry Foster, Salmaan Peerzada, Thorley Walters, Christian Roberts, Timothy West, Gretchen Franklin, Clifford Cox, Robin Parkinson, Russell Napier, Mollie Maureen
Martin (Hywel Bennett) is 21 years old, but when he suffers from stress, Martin takes on the personality of a six-year-old "Georgie." After Martin is caught stealing a toy duck to give to his mongoloid brother, Susan (Hayley Mills) talks the store manager out of pressing charges. When his stepfather (Frank Finlay) hears of the incident, he throws Martin out of the house, and "Georgie" moves into the boarding house of Susan's mother (Billie Whitelaw). Murders ensue when Martin kills his stepfather and then Susan's mother as his solution to problems in his life.
| | |
| 1. The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970)
2. Twisted Nerve (1968)
In The News
|
