BBC Sherlock Fan Forum - Serving Sherlockians since February 2012 / The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes

**Posted by Jacco111** January 15, 2014 9:44 am

Indeed, it was a good movie. Some cheap laughs, but okay, I'll forgive them that.

**Posted by SherlocklivesinOH** January 19, 2014 6:14 am

Doesn't Holmes fend off a woman's advances by claiming to be in a relationship with Watson?

**Posted by The Doctor** January 19, 2014 10:44 am

SherlocklivesinOH wrote:
Doesn't Holmes fend off a woman's advances by claiming to be in a relationship with Watson?

Yes.

A brilliant movie in so many ways - Gatiss has lauded it in public too!

**Posted by aprilwats** March 23, 2015 3:59 am

I just watched the 1970 "The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes." Honestly, I felt like I was watching another episode of Sherlock!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0puHGLAoCc

I watched after hearing Mark Gatiss call the movie "=mediuma template of sorts for Stephen Moffat and me as we made our adaptation for the BBC."
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2010/nov/07/mark-gatiss-sherlock-holmes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otYRcTrK1d0&feature=share

I then discovered the parallels between Private Life and BBC Sherlock were made into gif's on tumblr.

http://gatissed.tumblr.com/post/83299025503/bbc-sherlock-the-empty-hearse-vs-the-private
http://bluearcana.tumblr.com/post/103905564609/the-hounds-of-baskerville-the-private-life-of
http://bluearcana.tumblr.com/post/106256661219/the-private-life-of-sherlock-holmes-a-scandal-in
http://pursuitofnerdiness.tumblr.com/post/60090946536/battle-dress-the-kiss-goodbye-mr-holmes-news
http://gatissed.tumblr.com/post/84950680138/the-private-life-of-sherlock-holmes-vs-a-scandal

Private Life has even more johnlockiness than the BBC Sherlock:
http://sherlocksmyholmie.tumblr.com/post/65912453224/gawd-i-love-this-movie

The banter between the characters ... It's like watching another episode of the BBC Sherlock! (Sorry, I can't figure out how to change image sizes)

Lastly, here's a link to "Private Life"'s Mycroft, Christopher Lee, describing Mycroft:
http://enigmaticpenguinofdeath.tumblr.com/post/73228751796/my-version-of-mycroft-is-entirely-extrapolated

**Posted by NatureNoHumansNo** March 23, 2015 8:43 am

For me, " the private life of Sherlock Holmes" is good, but not better as some other adaptations. The first scenes are fun and I guess that's what Moffat and Gatiss like and got inspired by, the the rest of the movie is a "classical" Holmes's investigation ( as far as an investigation can be classical with Sherlock Holmes).
I' m fond of " a study in terror" and of the first Rathbones movies, too, ans the series with Peter Cushing as Holmes ( didn't see all the episodes, tough, some are really hard to find or even considered as lost)

**Posted by ukaunz** April 13, 2016 10:16 pm

I caught the tail end of this story on the news this morning
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-36024638

**Posted by besleybean** April 14, 2016 5:38 am

Oh yes it was on our Scottish news, too.
As a resident of Scotland, I was concerned something had happened to dear old Nessie.