The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother: Difference between revisions

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[[Gene Wilder]]'s 1975 directorial debut. Many fans will recall that [[Sherlock Holmes]] did in-fact have an older brother, Mycroft, who was by all accounts indeed smarter than Sherlock, yet [[Brilliant but Lazy|too lazy]] to accomplish what Sherlock had. This film follows his ''younger'' brother Sigerson's [[Day in The Limelight]].

The rest of the movie runs mostly on [[Rule of Funny]].

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* [[All Part of the Show]]: Sigerson, Sacker and Moriarty's assistant during the opera.

* [[Ambiguously Gay]]: Gambetti

* [[Brick Joke]]: "[[Ear Worm|The Kangaroo Hop]]".

* [[The Cameo]]: Albert Finney as an opera patron who criticizes Gambetti's performance.

** One can argue Wilder is also a Cast Showoff as he was an accomplished college fencer.

* [[Chekhov's Skill]]: Sigerson is practicing fencing when we first meet him.

* [[Genre Savvy]]: Gambetti doesn't hand the Redcliff Document over to Moriarty right away, because he knows that once he does, Moriarty will decide that [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness|he has outlived his usefulness]], and send some goons over to beat him, and take his money back. As he is saying this, Moriarty is preparing to smash a vase over his head.

* [[Groin Attack]]: Multiple examples.

* [[Instant Sedation]]: The pills Sacker puts in the wine during the opera scene.

* [[Large Ham]]: Everyone indulges in it, but Moriarty is the largest of them all.

* [[Photographic Memory]]: Sgt. Sacker has ''phono''graphic memory -- he can exactly repeat anything he has ever heard. At one point he begins to skip like a record.

* [[Pretty in Mink]]: Jenny wears a white fox muff on the rowboat date.

* [[Right-Hand-Cat]]: Moriarty has a cluster of small snakes.

* [[Sherlock Scan]]: Parodied. Sigerson twice makes a deduction about who is about to walk through his door based on the sound of their footsteps on the stairs outside the door. He's completely wrong, and someone else entirely walks in.

* [[Vocal Dissonance]]: A running gag has what sounds like a woman knocking on the door to Sigerson's office and calling him, and when he tells "her" to come in, it turns out to be his manservant Hunkston.

* [[Whip It Good]]: When Moriarty's henchman fight Sigerson atop the carriages.

 

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[[Category:Mystery and Detective Films]]

[[Category:Films of the 1970s]]

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