Details

Release year: 1975

Storyline

The younger brother of the consulting detective tries to steal Sherlock's glory by solving an important case assisted by an eccentric Scotland Yard detective and a lovely but suspicious actress.

Top credits

Directors

Gene Wilder

Writers

Cast

Gene Wilder — Sigerson Holmes
Madeline Kahn — Jenny Hill
Marty Feldman — Orville Sacker
Dom DeLuise — Gambetti

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Did you know

• Early in the film, Sigerson is seen doing some swordplay. In real life, following his 1955 graduation from the University of Iowa, Gene Wilder was accepted at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School in Bristol, England. After six months of studying fencing, Wilder became the first freshman to win the All-School Fencing Championship. He was often employed as a fencing instructor and choreographer on stage plays in which he was involved.

• Gene Wilder's character's first name, Sigerson, was an alias used by Sherlock Holmes during the period in which he was believed to have been killed by Prof. Moriarty, in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's short story "The Adventure of the Empty House".

• All the songs featured in the film, including "The Kangaroo Hop", are real music hall songs.