The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother

• Gene Wilder: Sigerson Holmes
• Madeline Kahn: Jenny Hill
• Marty Feldman: Sgt Orville Stanley Sacker
• Dom DeLuise: Eduardo Gambetti
• Leo McKern: Moriarty
• Roy Kinnear: Moriarty's Assistant
• John Le Mesurier: Lord Redcliff
• Douglas Wilmer: Sherlock Holmes
• Thorley Walters: Dr. Watson
• George Silver: Bruner
• Nicholas Smith: Hunkston
• John Hollis: Moriarty Gangster
• Aubrey Morris: bus driver
• Tommy Godfrey: Fred
• Susan Field: Queen Victoria
• Joseph Behr Mannis: Russian
• Julian Orchard: Man in tuxedo
• Kenneth Benda: Butler
• Michael Crane: Renato
• Tony Sympson: opera conductor

Sherlock Holmes Smarter Brother is a comedy film from 1975, when Gene Wilder played the lead role, wrote the screenplay and made ​​his directorial debut.

Action

Sherlock Holmes Instructs its little brother Sigerson Holmes, to find a document that was stolen by the government. Sigerson makes together with the opera singer Jenny Hill and the Scotland Yard investigator Sgt Orville Stanley Sacker on the search. The three experience as well many bizarre adventures and have to compete against Professor Moriarty and the blackmailer Eduardo Gambetti.

Production and publication

The film was made in 1975, directed by Gene Wilder in the studio Jouer film and the Twentieth Century -Fox Film Corporation. Gene Wilder also wrote and played the lead role. Producer was Richard A. Roth, the music was composed by John Morris and for the cut Jim Clark was responsible.

The premiere of the film was on December 14, 1975 in the U.S., the rental was by Twentieth Century- Fox. Later, film screenings followed in France, Sweden and from 30 April 1976 in Germany, where the film was also sold by Fox. There also exist among other translations into Polish, Portuguese and Spanish. The film was released in the U.S. on VHS and DVD. The German version was released in 2006 on DVD.

Synchronization

The German synchronous processing opened in 1976 at the Berliner Synchron. The dialog book authored Klaus Havenstein, who also led Dubbing studio.

Reviews

" Grotesque parody of the famous Conan Doyle detective and crime films ever made. Overall, not very imaginative and only in parts amusing. "

" [ ... ] [Gene Wilder ] directorial debut proves to be abundant failed. To parody alone approach, a self- parody already assessed character like Sherlock Holmes, although not directly, but by means of the younger brother one more time, was bound to fail. At no point can be laughed at. In vain hubris Wilder has turned a truly confused work, regardless of the (own) story or the players, all of them pretty much lost the toddle through the film. "