Christopher Lee in "The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes"

[wincipoet]

interestingly Robert Stephens's best friend, Jeremy Brett, played Holmes many yrs later in the highly acclaimed Granada TV series...hehe...

[railman01]

No disrespect to Basil Rathbone and Jeremy Brett et al. This film, for me, is the best Sherlock Holmes movie ever made. Robert Stephens and Colin blakley are faultless as Holmes and Watson. And Christopher Lee is in there too as Mycroft. Perfect.

[Guitarist500]

Christopher Lee is the best Sherlock Holmes!

[railman01]

@Guitarist500 The great (should be Sir) Christopher Lee is playing Sherlock's smarter brother Mycroft. Robert Stephens is brilliant as the eponymous Sherlock Holmes.

[Sshelly34213]

How fat is fat compared to Sherlock Holmes?

Really I always thought Mycroft was a bit overweight, but not obese like he's always portrayed.

[DwightFry78]

But Christopher Lee is thinner than Robert Stephens...

I imagine Mycroft as looking like the Paget drawing, kind of like Robert Morley, maybe a bit less portly.

[Sshelly34213]

He looks chubbier to me.

[colossusrising]

wasnt mycroft suppposed to be fat?/

[DwightFry78]

Actually yes, which makes Wilder's choice of Lee for the part quite puzzling, but his performance is amazing anyway.

[colossusrising]

I agree Lee is a great actor and makes a very interesting Mycroft, but I cant get out of my head the portly Mycroft portrayed in the original stories, with the reseding hairline and severe eyes..kinda pedantic I know.

BTW thanx for posting this vid I love it.

you can find this film in amazon right?

[SilverBellsAbove]

XD The only one who pwns Sherlock is his brother Mycroft. ^__^

[duran3d]

Mycroft was even more intelligent than Holmes, but he lacked Holmes' energy and physical activity. That's why he was fat.

[Jelperman]

Great movie!

[yayoineko]

This is a neat scene, all three characters are played in a cute kind of fashion--and the rivalry of the 2 brothers is almost childlike ^_^

[longerdaysdying]

Totally incorrectly, Lee's wikipedia entry states that he "had his head shaved bald" for the part...complete nonsense. Lee has worn a hair piece ( as did Peter Cushing ) for most of his career & he is clearly suffering from male pattern baldness as early as the 1950's-he has a high forehead & is receeding at the temples.

What misinformation you routinely find on wikipedia.

[longerdaysdying]

I wonder why Lee didn't wear his customary hair piece in this film? I think it's the only film he appeared in in his naturally bald state. His hair pieces through the years have been pretty good & he wears them when not making films, so it seems odd that he should've chosen to not wear one here.

[AlexC2827]

Oh, and I love Christopher Lee. he is lovely

[AlexC2827]

WHy didnt you crumle it up and swallow it. This is pure genius.

[Thespilian]

One has to love this scene, of course, as the whole of Wilder's movie, and Lee. As far as Doyle's and Paget's Mycroft is concerned that - while I agree that Charles Gray made the role his own, partly by playing it five times, and splendidly - Robert Morley was perfect casting in A Study in Terror, for he really looked the part.

[DwightFry78]

Morley was great, but I didn't think the approach to the character in A Study in Terror was true to Doyle. There, Mycroft was too willing to leave the Diogenes Club (he was the one visiting Sherlock instead of the other way around), thus stripping him of his most colourful characteristic.

[Thespilian]

True. But then, this was the problem with all cinematic Mycrofts, wasn't it? Lee was moving from London up to Scotland, Gray (at least in the Brett series, not in The 7% Solution) really is all over the place. I won't discuss that weird little rat-faced fellow from The Golden Years of Sherlock Holmes. The problem with a mobile Mycroft is, of course, that this makes Sherlock only the second greatest detective ...

[DwightFry78]

At least Gray had The 7% to get the character totally right. It's amazing how many things that one got right for being non-canon, even down to a limping Watson. As for Lee's version, him moving is somewhat justifiable plot-wise because it's such a peculiar case. And at least we didn't get him visiting Baker Street!

[Thespilian]

One might point out that the Jack the Ripper case might have been peculiar enough to make Mycroft move out of his railway tracks and visit his little brother. After all, Doyle had him visiting Baker Street in The Bruce-Partington Plans.

[DwightFry78]

Still, Mycroft played no active part in the mystery in A Study in Terror, while he did in Private Life. And the way Study treats the Ripper case doesn't really make it stand out (it's very B-movie-ish, after all). It looked much more peculiar in Murder by Decree, no matter how many aspects about Holmes that one got wrong.

[melito9791]

Lee here plays the role of Mycroft,Sherlock's brother,but in 1962 he played Sherlock in another movie by Terence Fisher,german production.

[DwightFry78]

And he was great in it, unfortunately the movie itself was way below great (and Mr. Lee was not allowed to use his voice, which is blasphemy).

[melito9791]

I agree with you,even if I don't know his voice,in fact in Italy,we double foreign movies.

[DwightFry78]

I've seen the Italian dubbed version of "Deadly Necklace". They gave Mr. Lee a totally non-appropriate, high-pitched, almost girly voice!

[melito9791]

Yo are right.I agree with you.Lee's original voice sounds better.I prefere the original versions of every movie.

[Sshelly34213]

I would suggest the Director's Cut, this film is structure I suppose but the Director's Cut is actually fantastic.

As a film...not necessarily as a true Sherlock film or even a true Billy Wilder film..

[DwightFry78]

But there's no Director's Cut... Most of the deleted scenes are lost or partially lost (for some we only have the picture or the audio, but not both).

[Sshelly34213]

the 3 hour version??

I've seen it, well not all the scenes I mean obviously they're lost, but it really makes much more sense.

Yea a lot of scenes were lost...I fcking hate when directors cut their films for theaters. Like why would you do that?

A Star is Born is a perfect example of a destroyed masterpiece.

[DwightFry78]

Directors don't do that. Producers/studios do. There are hundreds, thousands of examples (from Greed to The Magnificent Ambersons to Dune to Gangs of New York to...)

[Sshelly34213]

Yea but I would refuse to let them.

How could a Director allow a production studio to edit someone's art?

[DwightFry78]

I wish it was that easy! Directors don't own their movies, production companies (the money people) do. Just check the credits of any film for the copyright info.

Movies, specially in America, are primarily made to make money (I don't really blame them, as it's a very expensive media). Art is secondary.

[brandomilana]

is christopher lee really bald in here?

[DwightFry78]

Yes, he is.

[t1mmytee]

Shite! I haven't seen this since 1970! I want it!

[HolmesRocks]

Watson is so easly impressed.

[coolperson50613]

ah, i love sherlock holmes and christopher lee...

[raki1972]

Love,love the movie is brilliant!! one of my favorite!!

[melito9791]

Greit movie.One of my favourite.

[Hobbitska]

THANKS VERY MUCH! HE is simply WONDERFUL!!! (with or without hair ;) I must have this movie! And I will! And thank you again!

[Blazkovicz]

jaktože nemá vlasy? O.o

[Hobbitska]

Prý už dlouhá léta nosí parochni... :( Já za to nemůžu!!! ;´((((

[Hobbitska]

Eeh kruci, paruku!!! Tak je to česky. Sorry!!!

[DwightFry78]

You're very welcome! Do get the film, it's great, and Mr. Lee has some wonderful moments near the end (which I can not upload without spoiling anything).

[Hobbitska]

Thanks again!

[Blazkovicz]

jo dobrý já to pochopila xD, počkej, von fkt nosí paruku? kecáš xD

[Hobbitska]

Právě, že asi ne... hodím ti link do commentů ve tvém profilu, je tam jenom jedna větička, ale odrovnala mne asi na 3 dny...

[Blazkovicz]

já to tam nějak nevidim..můžeš mi pls do profilu poslat přímo tu větu?

ale stejně,... se mi to nějak nezdá... někdy to co čteš na netu sou strašný blbosti, kdo co řek, atd... vono je taky někdy dobrý ne všemu zrovna věřit.. možná je to pravda, ale řekla bych, že by se to nějak provalilo na veřejnost.. nvm, no

[Blazkovicz]

a ikdybyže má paruku, tak to stejně nemění nic na tom že je můj životní vzor... ono je podle mně důležitěší, to jakej člověk je a co má v hlavě a ne jak vypadá (ikdyž Lee vypadá dobře xD )

[Hobbitska]

...jo i bez vlasů. Víš, ty jsi úžasná, že jsi se s tím tak rychle vypořádala, mne to trvalo 3 - 4 dny.

[Hobbitska]

ok.

[Blazkovicz]

mě by to taky položilo na několik dní,jenže mně už se podobná situace stala,tak už to tak moc neberu:)

[Blazkovicz]

mí nejoblíbenější herci sou: na 1. místě samozřejmě Lee a pak Daniels a McDiarmid.

[Blazkovicz]

jednou sem si četla o Danielsovi a dočetla sem se od jednoho uživatele strašný věci(jako co řek)tak mě to složilo a pár dní sem ho nemohla ani vidět(jako žádnou fotku, video, nic)

[Blazkovicz]

ale pak sem si řekla že to psal jen jeden člověk a ostatní píšou jak je úžasnej,a podle těch všech videí,atd..tak sem tu situaci nějak přehodnotila a už ty věci z netu neberu tak moc vážně..prostě se k tomu stavim jinak,kdyby všude psali že má Lee paruku a Daniels uráží všechny kolem sebe tak tomu možná věřim,ale takhle fkt moc ne:)

[Hobbitska]

Mně se tu už stalo mnohokrát, ale stále znovu mne to položí. A stále znovu se s tím dokážu vypořádat. A Christopher je stejně lepší než ostatní, i bez vlasů. Protože tu nejde o vlasy, zuby a nevím co jiné, ale o charizmu, přitažlivost a charakter.

[Hobbitska]

A toho ON má víc než dost. :)

[Blazkovicz]

:) jj naprosto souhlasim :)

ale stejně se mi to s tou parukou nějak nezdá xD