Fletchy

I just watched this again this week.

Great script, music, acting, directing and locations. Perfect.

Robert Stephens is excellent. Colin Blakely is, as always, superb. Christopher Lee steals the show in his only 2 scenes. The rest of the cast is great too.

Anybody know which station was used for Inverness Station?


Definitely my glass of tea!

CaptainWaggett

One of my favourite authors is also very fond of this film, as am I

batman

According to IMDB it was Keighley and Worth Valley Railway, West Yorkshire.

I'm the cutest bottom judge!

dremble wedge

"Looking for a magazine to while away the two-hour train journey, I glimpse, incredibly, exactly the image which arrested my attention in Cornwall more than 20 years ago: the familiar outline of Holmes's deerstalker framing the image of a half-naked woman. But what magazine would conceivably want to put this picture on its cover?

A doomed magazine, certainly. Its name is Movie Collector, and it is fated only to last for a handful of issues. It caters to a small audience of fanatics, fetishists, obsessives: people like myself, in short"

Ah Movie Collector... What a fabulous magazine.

Colonel Blimp

This is a perfectly lovely film. Have there been any films in recent times that could be described as 'perfectly lovely'?

Anyway, it's a Billy Wilder film, so - leaving aside one or two little misfires that decorum prevents us from mentioning - what else could one expect?

And yes ... I remember Movie Collector, in fact I used to have them all ... countless typos and all! And I remember the nice piece on Private Life as well ...

Yes, a perfectly lovely film!

dpgmel

Have to agree with the above comments regards " Private Lives of Sherlock Holmes " a really lovely piece of fim making. Remeber going to see it when it first came out at the Camberwell Odeon !

Excellent central performance form Robert Stephens.

CliveT

Hi Fletchy

Many years ago I stayed at Lewiston near Urquhart Castle and the film used the exteriors of the castle. The property owner told me the problems Billy Wilder had in getting the horses down the slope to the castle from the A82 which runs past overlooking the loch at this point. A handsome film in it's locations, photography, acting-will the "missing" section ever be shown I wonder!

AdrianTurner

The current DVD release contains much of the missing footage and much of the missing soundtrack, though sometimes not from the same scenes. It is absolutely fascinating to see and gain a sense of the movie that Wilder originally envisaged. This remains one of my all-time favourite movies - I saw it again a few months ago and felt - as always - emotionally wrecked by the end. It is simply sublime. There is also a new soundtrack available with all of Rozsa's bliss-out score - CD No. TADLOW004.

About that railway station that purports to be Inverness and where the dwarves walk across the bridge - I have studied Google Earth maps and am convinced it's not on that Yorkshire line. None of the stations on that line look remotely like the one in the movie.

knobbykins

I've loved this film from the first time i saw it but one thing has always unreasonably bothered me....i don't read Morse and wondered how accurate the parasol message is!

When the king's off his arse nobody sleeps!

steereomono

A friend who grew up in the area said that Dingwall Station was used (about 14 miles north of Inverness) I haven't seen the film myself, but maybe these pictures help.
http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2006-...ngwall-sta.jpg

CumfyGuy

I am a collector of photos from Sherlock Holmes movies, including The Private Life. If anyone is selling movie stills or lobby cards from Sherlock Holmes movies please contact me. Thanks.

AdrianTurner

Thanks for that steereomono - but I don't think it was Dingwall. I've looked at as many pictures of Dingwall as I can find and while it does bear certain resemblances to the station used in Sherlock Holmes, I think it must be another place. The killer fact for me is that the bridge used by the Trappist Monks is on the other side of the tracks to the main station building. Dingwall has two bridges and the architecture doesn't tie up with the scene in the film. I'm almost coming to the conclusion that it was a Trauner set built for just one shot!