Rating: PG
Genre:
Comedy
Release Date: 04/04/2006
SubTitles: English/Espanol
Dubbed: English/French/Espanol
Sound: DD1/DD2
Run Time: 91 Minutes
Flags: Mild Violence, Adult Situations, Questionable for Children, Adult Language
Distributor/Studio: 20th Century Fox
Comic actor
Gene Wilder made his debut as a writer and director in this
period comedy in which he plays
Sigerson Holmes, the older bother of famous detective
Sherlock Holmes. For years,
Sigerson has been living in his little brother's shadow, and he is convinced that he must constantly prove his superiority to his brother in all things at all times. Of course, he often fails, but one can't argue with his determination. In this story,
Sherlock (
Douglas Wilmer) and his faithful assistant,
Watson (
Thorley Walters), are called away from England on an assignment, and
Sherlock asks
Sigerson if he wouldn't mind looking into a case for him. With typically misguided enthusiasm,
Sigerson is hot on the trail of a cache of missing government documents, whose theft may be the dirty work of the wicked
Moriarty (
Leo McKern).
Sigerson is assisted in his investigation by
Olville Sacker (
Marty Feldman), a bumbling Scotland Yard detective who claims to have photographic hearing, and the mysterious and seductive
Jenny Hill (
Madeline Kahn).
Gene Wilder rose to fame in the offbeat
comedies of director
Mel Brooks, so it was fitting that, for his first film as a director,
Wilder cast
Brooks in a cameo role (he's heard but not seen after discovering that the door he chose had the tiger, not the lady).
~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
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