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A 1970 film by Creator/BillyWilder, which asks the question: we all know about how successful Literature/SherlockHolmes is at solving mysteries, but what about his failures? His secrets? Those things he wouldn't want Dr. Watson to reveal to the world?
The film was envisioned as a collection of several short stories, with four segments filmed but two ultimately left out of the film to keep the running time down. One of them is included in some home video releases.
The movie as released is essentially split into two stories, one longer than the other: in the first, Holmes is approached by a beautiful Russian dancer with an unorthodox offer to make to him; in the second, he is drawn into a conspiracy at the highest levels of government after a woman who was fished naked out of the Thames finds herself on the doorstep of 221B Baker Street. In both cases, the outcome is something that Holmes would rather not be reminded of...
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A 1970 film by Creator/BillyWilder, which asks the question: we We all know about how successful Literature/SherlockHolmes is at solving mysteries, but what about his failures? His secrets? Those things he wouldn't want Dr. Watson to reveal to the world?
The filmwas envisioned as a collection of several short stories, with four segments filmed but two ultimately left out of the film to keep the running time down. One of them is included in some home video releases.
The movie as releasedis essentially split into two stories, one longer than the other: in the first, Holmes (Robert Stephens) is approached by a beautiful Russian dancer with an unorthodox offer to make to him; in the second, he is and Watson (Colin Blakely) are drawn into a conspiracy at the highest levels of government after a woman who was fished naked out of the Thames finds herself on the doorstep of 221B Baker Street. In both cases, the outcome is something that Holmes would rather not be reminded of...of...
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* {{Asexuality}}: One of the possibilities that can be inferred from Holmes and Watson's very suggestive conversation. [[spoiler: It is later established that Holmes is probably not gay, as would be the most likely interpretation of his remarks, when Holmes reveals to Ilsa that he was once engaged to be married to a woman (his fiancée died before the wedding). Even so, he doesn't speak particularly fondly of his fiancée, but after Ilsa's own death we see that Holmes was truly attached to her when he turns to the needle in grief.]]
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* SurprisinglyGoodForeignLanguage: Madame Petrova speaks perfect Russian. To be expected, because she was played by Tamara Toumanova, an immigrant from Russia. Event her slight accent (she was half-Georgian) was perfectly plausible for that time and her social standing in-character.
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* AffectionateParody
* CovertGroupWithMundaneFront: "The Diogenes Club".
-->'''Mycroft''': It's come to my attention that you are interested in the whereabouts of a certain engineer.
-->'''Sherlock''': Yes, I am.
-->'''Mycroft''': Well, I can save you a lot of trouble. My suggestion is that you pursue it no further. It involves the national security. We are handling the matter.
-->'''Watson''': We? Who are we?
-->'''Sherlock''': The Diogenes Club.
-->'''Mycroft''': I didn't say that.
-->'''Sherlock''': I've long suspected some underground connection between this stodgy and seemingly calcified establishment and the foreign offices in Whitehall.
-->'''Mycroft''': That is neither here nor there.
-->'''Sherlock''': Your club is here, there and everywhere! When there are rumblings of revolt in the Sudan an expedition funded by your club conveniently shows up to study the source of the Nile. If there's trouble along the Indian frontier, members pop up in the Himalayas, allegedly looking for the abominable snowman.
-->'''Mycroft''': ''[chuckles]'' What a vivid imagination my brother has.
-->'''Mycroft''': It's come to my attention that you are interested in the whereabouts of a certain engineer.
-->'''Sherlock''': Yes, I am.
-->'''Mycroft''': Well, I can save you a lot of trouble. My suggestion is that you pursue it no further. It involves the national security. We are handling the matter.
-->'''Watson''': We? Who are we?
-->'''Sherlock''': The Diogenes Club.
-->'''Mycroft''': I didn't say that.
-->'''Sherlock''': I've long suspected some underground connection between this stodgy and seemingly calcified establishment and the foreign offices in Whitehall.
-->'''Mycroft''': That is neither here nor there.
-->'''Sherlock''': Your club is here, there and everywhere! When there are rumblings of revolt in the Sudan an expedition funded by your club conveniently shows up to study the source of the Nile. If there's trouble along the Indian frontier, members pop up in the Himalayas, allegedly looking for the abominable snowman.
-->'''Mycroft''': ''[chuckles]'' What a vivid imagination my brother has.
* TheScrooge: Discussed; one of the letters begging for Holmes's help comes from a circus owner asking Holmes' help to find six midgets who have disappeared from his circus. After spinning Watson a yarn about how the midgets are actually anarchist assassins planning to blow up the Tsar of Russia when he's on a state visit, Holmes reveals that it's actually more likely that the circus owner is a massive skinflint and the midgets have ran away to seek more profitable employment elsewhere, acerbically pointing out that the circus owner offers to pay Holmes a mere five pounds for his services -- he's not even offering a pound a midget. [[spoiler: Funnily enough, the midgets turn out to be working for Mycroft.]]
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* TheScrooge: Discussed; one of the letters begging for Holmes's help comes from a circus owner asking Holmes's help to find six midgets who have disappeared from his circus. After spinning Watson a yarn about how the midgets are actually anarchist assassins planning to blow up the Tsar of Russia when he's on a state visit, Holmes reveals that it's actually more likely that the circus owner is a massive skinflint and the midgets have ran away to seek more profitable employment elsewhere, acerbically pointing out that the circus owner offers to pay Holmes a mere five pounds for his services -- he's not even offering a pound a midget. [[spoiler: Funnily enough, the midgets turn out to be working for Mycroft.]]
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* StalkerWithATestTube:The Russian Dancer Madame Petrova tries to get Holmes to contribute his DNA to her children, hoping their offspring with have her physical advantages and his mental advantages.
* TheScrooge: Discussed; one of the letters begging for Holmes's help comes from a circus owner asking Holmes's help to find six midgets who have disappeared from his circus. After spinning Watson a yarn about how the midgets are actually anarchist assassins planning to blow up the Tsar of Russia when he's on a state visit, Holmes reveals that it's actually more likely that the circus owner is a massive skinflint and the midgets have ran away to seek more profitable employment elsewhere, acerbically pointing out that the circus owner offers to pay Holmes a mere five pounds for his services -- he's not even offering a pound a midget. [[spoiler: Funnily enough, the midgets turn out to be working for Mycroft.]]advantages.
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* TheScrooge: Discussed; one of the letters begging for Holmes's help comes from a circus owner asking Holmes's help to find six midgets who have disappeared from his circus. After spinning Watson a yarn about how the midgets are actually anarchist assassins planning to blow up the Tsar of Russia when he's on a state visit, Holmes reveals that it's actually more likely that the circus owner is a massive skinflint and the midgets have ran away to seek more profitable employment elsewhere, acerbically pointing out that the circus owner offers to pay Holmes a mere five pounds for his services -- he's not even offering a pound a midget. [[spoiler: Funnily enough, the midgets turn out to be working for Mycroft.]]
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* TheScrooge: Discussed; one of the letters begging for Holmes's help comes from a circus owner asking Holmes's help to find six midgets who have disappeared from his circus. After spinning Watson a yarn about how the midgets are actually anarchist assassins planning to blow up the Tsar of Russia when he's on a state visit, Holmes reveals that it's actually more likely that the circus owner is a massive skinflint and the midgets have ran away to seek more profitable employment elsewhere, acerbically pointing out that the circus owner offers to pay Holmes a mere five pounds for his services -- he's not even offering a pound a midget. [[spoiler: Funnily enough, the midgets turn out to be working for Mycroft.]]
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* EveryoneKnowsMorse: Gabrielle uses this to communicate with [[spoiler:her German handlers]], and Holmes inevitably knows how to decode it.
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* EveryoneKnowsMorse: Gabrielle uses this to communicate with [[spoiler:her German handlers]], and Holmes inevitably knows how to decode it. Justified because, well, of ''course'' Sherlock Holmes would make sure he knew something like that.
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* ChekhovsGag: Holmes makes a dismissive joke about a missing persons case he's been offered; later, it turns out to be part of the conspiracy. [[spoiler:The missing persons, a troupe of circus midgets, were hired in secret to crew the Diogenes Club's mini-submarine.]]
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* IconicOutfit: In universe example; Holmes bemoans the ridiculous get up he's now forced to wear everywhere he goes because it's expected of him.
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* BeamMeUpScotty: In universe example; Holmes bemoans the ridiculous get up he's now forced to wear everywhere he goes because it's expected of him.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: The old lady in the wheelchair uses a contraption to pull up her birdcage cover that closely resembles a drawbridge - this foreshadows later in the film when a drawbridge becomes part of the story.
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** [[spoiler: Amusingly, the prop (which was accidentally sunk during filming) [[http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-36024638 was discovered]] by a team searching for the real Nessie in April 2016.]]
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->''"We all have occasional failures. Fortunately, Dr. Watson never writes about mine."''
-->-- '''Franchise/SherlockHolmes'''
A 1970 film by Creator/BillyWilder which asks the question; we all know about how successful Franchise/SherlockHolmes is at solving mysteries, but what about his failures? His secrets? Those things he wouldn't want Dr. Watson to reveal to the world?
The movie is essentially split into two stories, one longer than the other: in the first, Holmes is approached by a beautiful Russian dancer with an unorthodox offer to make to him; in the second, he is drawn into a conspiracy at the highest levels of government after a woman who was fished naked out of the Thames finds herself on the doorstep of 221B Baker Street. In both cases, the outcome is something that Holmes would rather not be reminded of...
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!!Provides examples of:
* AffectionateParody
* AloofBigBrother: Mycroft, natch.
* {{Asexuality}}: One of the possibilities that can be inferred from Holmes and Watson's very suggestive conversation. [[spoiler: It is later established that Holmes is probably not gay, as would be the most likely interpretation of his remarks, when Holmes reveals to Ilsa that he was once engaged to be married to a woman (his fiancée died before the wedding). Even so, he doesn't speak particularly fondly of his fiancée, but after Ilsa's own death we see that Holmes was truly attached to her when he turns to the needle in grief.]]
* BeamMeUpScotty: In universe example; Holmes bemoans the ridiculous get up he's now forced to wear everywhere he goes because it's expected of him.
* BonnieScotland: Where the second half of the film takes place.
* {{Deconstruction}}: A mild example, of SherlockHolmes himself; it's mostly affectionate, but points out that he was more than a bit weird and that he had to screw up every so often.
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: Ilsa winds up dead, shot after being exposed as a spy in Japan. This drives Holmes back to the cocaine bottle.]]
* EveryoneKnowsMorse: Gabrielle uses this to communicate with [[spoiler:her German handlers]], and Holmes inevitably knows how to decode it.
* FauxYay: Holmes tries this with Madame Petrova, much to Watson's fury.
* MyGreatestFailure: [[spoiler:This ends up being Watson's recounting of Holmes'.]]
* [[spoiler:NotTheNessie: This is what the Diogenes' invention was disguised as.]]
* TheOmniscientCouncilOfVagueness: The Diogenes Club is a non-evil example.
* PerformanceArtist: Apparently the Russian Ballet attracts these like flies. Gay, gay flies.
* SherlockScan: Oddly enough, averted with Holmes himself. The closest we get in the film is Watson doing this after Gabrielle is brought up to their flat.
* SorryImGay: Upon learning that it worked for Tchaikovsky, Holmes uses this to get out of having to father a child with Madame Petrova. Watson is not pleased...
* UnreliableNarrator: Not an example itself, but it suggests that Watson was this for the original Holmes stories; Holmes acidly notes that he has a tendency to 'over-romanticize', and gives him a telling off for all the ways he or his publishers have exaggerated what he's like.
** The accusation that Watson romanticizes their adventures is taken from directly from the original stories.
* VodkaDrunkenski: Lots of drinking going on at the Russian Ballet's after party.
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->''"We all have occasional failures. Fortunately, Dr. Watson never writes about mine."''
-->-- '''Franchise/SherlockHolmes'''
A 1970 film by Creator/BillyWilder which asks the question; we all know about how successful Franchise/SherlockHolmes is at solving mysteries, but what about his failures? His secrets? Those things he wouldn't want Dr. Watson to reveal to the world?
The movie is essentially split into two stories, one longer than the other: in the first, Holmes is approached by a beautiful Russian dancer with an unorthodox offer to make to him; in the second, he is drawn into a conspiracy at the highest levels of government after a woman who was fished naked out of the Thames finds herself on the doorstep of 221B Baker Street. In both cases, the outcome is something that Holmes would rather not be reminded of...
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!!Provides examples of:
* AffectionateParody
* AloofBigBrother: Mycroft, natch.
* {{Asexuality}}: One of the possibilities that can be inferred from Holmes and Watson's very suggestive conversation. [[spoiler: It is later established that Holmes is probably not gay, as would be the most likely interpretation of his remarks, when Holmes reveals to Ilsa that he was once engaged to be married to a woman (his fiancée died before the wedding). Even so, he doesn't speak particularly fondly of his fiancée, but after Ilsa's own death we see that Holmes was truly attached to her when he turns to the needle in grief.]]
* BeamMeUpScotty: In universe example; Holmes bemoans the ridiculous get up he's now forced to wear everywhere he goes because it's expected of him.
* BonnieScotland: Where the second half of the film takes place.
* {{Deconstruction}}: A mild example, of SherlockHolmes himself; it's mostly affectionate, but points out that he was more than a bit weird and that he had to screw up every so often.
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: Ilsa winds up dead, shot after being exposed as a spy in Japan. This drives Holmes back to the cocaine bottle.]]
* EveryoneKnowsMorse: Gabrielle uses this to communicate with [[spoiler:her German handlers]], and Holmes inevitably knows how to decode it.
* FauxYay: Holmes tries this with Madame Petrova, much to Watson's fury.
* MyGreatestFailure: [[spoiler:This ends up being Watson's recounting of Holmes'.]]
* [[spoiler:NotTheNessie: This is what the Diogenes' invention was disguised as.]]
* TheOmniscientCouncilOfVagueness: The Diogenes Club is a non-evil example.
* PerformanceArtist: Apparently the Russian Ballet attracts these like flies. Gay, gay flies.
* SherlockScan: Oddly enough, averted with Holmes himself. The closest we get in the film is Watson doing this after Gabrielle is brought up to their flat.
* SorryImGay: Upon learning that it worked for Tchaikovsky, Holmes uses this to get out of having to father a child with Madame Petrova. Watson is not pleased...
* UnreliableNarrator: Not an example itself, but it suggests that Watson was this for the original Holmes stories; Holmes acidly notes that he has a tendency to 'over-romanticize', and gives him a telling off for all the ways he or his publishers have exaggerated what he's like.
** The accusation that Watson romanticizes their adventures is taken from directly from the original stories.
* VodkaDrunkenski: Lots of drinking going on at the Russian Ballet's after party.
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