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...Private Life of Sherlock Holmes. A film from Billy Wilder that is less severe than one might expect and less funny than one might hope. But there are many fine moments, a nice performance by Genevieve Page, and a kind of bad-boy-goes-straight kindness in Wilder's surprisingly gentle denouement...
...When it was given a network airing, the frog was compromised. Or so Henson decided. Like Jim Thorpe, Kermit played for money, and now must relinquish his amateur standing. He is being phased out of the show. He will be replaced by such Muppets as Lecturer Herbert Birdsfoot and Sherlock Hemlock, a bumbling sleuth...
...hang of it," he replied. Examining the dregs of his tea, he continued, "I see myself in the next century played by a number of actors on jiggling celluloid. Raymond Massey, Basil Rathbone-hello! what's this?-Here I am in 1970, in The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes...
...Sherlock Jr., he rode the handlebars of a driverless motorcycle. In Steamboat Bill Jr., he flew through the air on a trunkless tree. In Our Hospitality, he went over a waterfall. When he employed sleight of lens, it was to achieve effects normally seen only on canvas. In The Frozen North, he climbed subway stairs-and emerged in Alaska. In The Playhouse, he staged a minstrel show with nine Busters. In the Pirandelloesque Daydreams, he left life to climb into a film within a film...
...finally nabbed the last of the 15 thieves who in August 1963 made off with more than $7,000,000 from a Glasgow-to-London mail train. Closing that case was the capstone of a 34-year career in which Butler, according to admiring colleagues, combined the intellect of Sherlock Holmes with the persistence of Inspector Maigret...