Sherlock Holmes' clever brother

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Movie
German title Sherlock Holmes clever brother
Original title The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother
Country of production USA ,
UK
original language English
Publishing year 1975
length 91 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Gene Wilder
script Gene Wilder
production Richard A. Roth
music John Morris
camera Gerry Fisher
cut Jim Clark
occupation
synchronization

Sherlock Holmes Smart Brother is a 1975 comedy film that starred Gene Wilder , wrote the screenplay, and made his directorial debut.

action

London in 1891: Foreign Secretary Lord Redcliff ( John Le Mesurier ) accidentally receives a document of unknown content from Queen Victoria. However, it is stolen from its safe during the night.

Sherlock Holmes ( Douglas Wilmer ) and Dr. Watson ( Thorley Walters ) discuss the case. The famous detective informs his partner that he will retire for a while and will delegate cases to his younger brother Sigerson ( Gene Wilder ). He has always been in the shadow of his well-known brother and struggles in vain for recognition. Sherlock Holmes does not hand the case over to his brother himself, but meets at a train station with Sgt. Orville Stanley Sacker ( Marty Feldman ) from Scotland Yard , who happens to be a fan of Sigerson's work.

Sacker goes to Sigerson's apartment, where he practices fencing and sword fighting. Sigerson reveals to the Scotland Yard employee his bitterness and resentment that he has tried to repeat his brother's success so far without any results and describes him as a pure lucky boy. Immediately after this emotional outburst, a woman ( Madeline Kahn ) appears who pretends to be "Bessie Bellwood". Sigerson Holmes, however, sees through her as a liar and exposes her - with his knowledge of Bellwood's repertoire and the fact of her death in 1879. The woman eventually reveals herself to be the singer Jenny Hill, a music hall singer, according to her own opinion blackmailed the opera singer Eduardo Gambetti ( Dom DeLuise ) because of an amorous letter. The meeting of the three is noticed - by a henchman of the mathematically disoriented Professor Moriarty ( Leo McKern ), who is informed about this meeting.

Sigerson Holmes attends a music hall performance of Jenny Hills and saves her from an assassin by making himself part of the performance and leading Hill through a musical number. Later, on the way home, the detective saves her again when she is threatened by two Hansom Cabs and their drivers. In the media, however, the heroism is attributed to Sherlock Holmes, which spoils Sigerson Holmes' mood.

Jenny Hill invites Sigerson into her dressing room the next day, where he seduces her and - in addition to the erotic adventure - also receives further information on how to solve the case: Hill, who is allegedly the daughter of Foreign Minister Lord Redcliff, has Queen Victoria's document stolen from Redcliff's safe. Sigerson Holmes then meets with Redcliff, who gives the case a new twist - because Jenny Hill is not his daughter, but his fiancée.

Finally, the detective leads a lead to Eduardo Gambetti, who has agreed with Professor Moriarty to sell the document, which he now has in his possession, for 50,000 British pounds. According to the suspicious Gambetti, the handover of the document should take place during the debut of his opera, so that he can safely deposit the money with enough time. Sigerson Holmes and Orville Stanley Sacker break into the opera, where chaos soon breaks out. At the Klimax, Sigerson Holmes and Professor Moriarty meet each other backstage and fight against each other in a sword fight. Their duel takes them to a ledge on the outside of the opera, where Professor Moriarty explains that Sherlock Holmes is more famous because of his ability to see the moves of his opponents "two to three steps ahead". Pushed into a corner and in danger of death, Sigerson Holmes apparently hands over the letter to Queen Victoria, but Professor Moriarty himself falls to his death when a bell rattles. The document handed over, however, was only a dummy and Sigerson Holmes deposited the original in such a way that Sherlock could find it.

In the final scene, Sigerson Holmes is on his way to Jenny Hill's wedding to Lord Redcliff. However, he does not come to the church, but pauses in a park, as the bride is waiting for him there on a park bench.

Production and publication

The film was made in 1975 under the direction of Gene Wilder at Studio Jouer Films and the Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation . Gene Wilder also wrote the script and took on the lead role. Richard A. Roth was the producer, John Morris composed the music and Jim Clark was responsible for editing .

The premiere of the film was on December 14, 1975 in the USA, the distribution was through Twentieth Century-Fox. This was followed by cinema screenings in France , Sweden and, from April 30, 1976, in Germany , where the film was also distributed by Fox. There are also translations into Polish , Portuguese and Spanish, among others . The film was released in the US on VHS and DVD . The German version was released on DVD in 2006.

synchronization

The German dubbing was created in 1976 at Berliner Synchron . The dialogue book was written by Klaus Havenstein , who also directed the dubbing.

role actor Voice actor
Sigerson Holmes Gene Wilder Jürgen Thormann
Jenny Hill Madeline Kahn Almut Eggert
Orville Sacker Marty Feldman Joachim Kemmer
Gambetti Dom DeLuise Klaus Havenstein
Moriarty Leo McKern Alexander Welbat
Lord Redcliff John Le Mesurier Friedrich Schoenfelder

Reviews

“Grotesque parody of the famous Conan Doyle detective and crime films in general. Overall not very imaginative and only partially enjoyable. "

- Lexicon of international film

“[…] [Gene Wilder's] directorial debut turns out to be quite a failure. Even the attempt to parody a character like Sherlock Holmes who was already parodic in itself, not directly, but one more time with the help of the younger brother, had to fail. At no point can one laugh. In vain self-overestimation, Wilder shot a truly confused work, regardless of the (own) story or the teammates, all of whom pace through the film rather lost. "

- Meinolf Zurhorst , Lexicon of crime films (1993)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thomas Bräutigam : Stars and their German voices. Lexicon of voice actors . Schüren, Marburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-89472-627-0 , CD-ROM
  2. ↑ Sherlock Holmes' clever brother. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  3. ^ Meinolf Zurhorst in Lexikon des Kriminalfilms. With more than 400 films from 1900 until today . Heyne, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-453-05210-2 , p. 272.