The motion picture was panned by the critics whose reputation should soar in future years, being recently a 12 minutes restored. It was the most elegant picture I've ever shot ¨. I had tears in my eyes as I looked at the thing. The whole prologue was cut, a half-sequence was cut, in fact it was intended as a 3 and half hour film. Wilder said of this flick in the book 'Conversations with Wilder' by 'Cameron Crowe' : " when I came back from Paris, it was an absolute disaster, the way it was cut. Apparently, he had been a fan of Sherlock Holmes for many years prior to making this picture.
#THE DARKNESS II PRIVATE MOVIE#
This special Billy Wilder movie takes melancholy look at Holmes. At the request of director Billy Wilder, composer Miklós Rózsa adapted music from his own Violin Concerto, opus 24, as the basis for the film score, supplementing this with further original music. Unfortunately, during a test run in Loch Ness, the Monster-prop sank and was never recovered a second prop was built, but was only filmed inside a studio tank. Originally, the scenes featuring the Loch Ness Monster were intended to be filmed in the actual Loch, a life-size prop was built which had several Nessie-like humps used to disguise flotation devices, the humps were removed, however, at Billy Wilder's request. Watson, but Billy Wilder decided to go with lesser known stars instead.
However, initially Peter O'Toole was going to play Sherlock Holmes with Peter Sellers playing Dr. Colin Blakely plays as Watson with humor, goofy and joy, he's the perfect counterpoint to Holmes. Robert Stephens as Holmes plays in a clever, broody and impetuous manner. Robert Stephens's interpretation is magnificent, he's one of the best Sherlock Holmes in the cinema, likeness to Peter Cushing and Jeremy Brett in television. Production design by the expert Alexandre Trauner is of first rate, the movie is very atmospheric, 221 Baker Street home, the streets of London, castles are very well designed.
The film has an enjoyable atmosphere, it's in wonderful color that originates a glamorous setting created by the magnificent cameraman Chistopher Challis, and filmed at Pinewood Studios, Buckinghamshire, and Inverness, Highland, Scotland. Furthermore, a notorious secondary cast as Clive Revill, Stanley Holloway as an undertaker, Catherine Lacey in her last cinema film and the classic dancer Tamara Toumanova. In the flick appears the usual of the Arthur Conan Doyle's novels : Mycroft (Sherlock's brother, well played by Christopher Lee), Mistress Hudson (Irene Handl), and as always Doctor Watson (Colin Blakely).
It is packed with intrigue, thrills, emotion, taste, wit, and of course ,intrigue. Atypical Holmes movie, resulting to be a extremely personal pastiche of the Arthur Conan Doyle stories and takes a melancholic point of sight at famous eye private. This affectionate story reveals the secret allegedly hidden by Holmes and Watson.
#THE DARKNESS II PRIVATE SERIES#
When a bored Holmes (Robert Stephens who also played Holmes on the stage and in TV series 'The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes') eagerly takes the case of Gabrielle Valladon (Genevieve Page) after an attempt on her life, the search for her missing husband leads to Sherlock and Watson (Colin Blakely) towards Loch Ness and the legendary monster.
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