The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970)
Directed by Billy Wilder
When a bored Sherlock eagerly takes the case of Gabrielle Valladon following an attempt on her life, the search for her missing husband leads to Loch Ness and the legendary monster.
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The character has been assayed by a veritable rogues’ gallery of actors including the legendary (and stodgy) Basil Rathbone, Nicol Williamson (in 1976's The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, which notably featured a young Robert Duvall as Dr. Watson), Robert Stephens (in Billy Wilder's vaguely homoerotic The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes), and Christopher Plummer (in the excellent Holmes/Ripper face-off Murder by Decree, helmed by Bob Clark, of A Christmas Story).
Then again, it is a little better than "Sherlock Holmes" and as cinematic attempts to juice up the property go, it is certainly more tolerable than such excruciating works as "Without a Trace" or the abysmal "Young Sherlock Holmes," though it is hardly a patch on such borderline brilliant works as Billy Wilder's "The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes" or "The Seven-Per-Cent Solution."
In the spirit of Billy Wilder’s much better 1970 Conan Doyle gloss, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, the detective unravels a riddle of international espionage…