Considered by many Holmesians to be the best Sherlock Holmes movie ever made, Billy Wilder’s The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes is both an affectionate parody, and a brilliant, melancholy celebration of Arthur Conan Doyle’s famous detective. Sherlock Holmes (Robert Stephens) and Dr. Watson (Colin Blakely) are tasked with locating the missing husband of a mysterious woman fished out of the River Thames. The course of their investigation leads them to Scotland and encounters with a group of monks, some dwarfs and even the Loch Ness Monster. Can Holmes and Watson crack the case? Co-written by Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond (one of eleven screenplays they wrote together) and starring the late great Christopher Lee as Sherlock’s brother Mycroft.

This is a QUAD Essentials screening and features an introduction and a post-screening discussion.

Tickets – £12 (standard) & £9.50 (concessions). Includes £1 ticket commission.

Book tickets to all four QUAD Essentials Sherlock Holmes screenings (Silent Sherlock, The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes, The Hound Of The Baskervilles and The Private Life Of Sherlock Holmes) and receive a £10 discount. Just add all four films to your basket and the discount will be applied at checkout.