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"Orville Sacker" is similar to "Ormond Sacker," the name used in Arthur Conan Doyle's first draft of a Holmes story (in which "Sherrinford Holmes" was the original name of the famous detective). As for the name "Sigerson Holmes," see Holmes's remark in "The Adventure Of The Empty House" (by Doyle): "I travelled for two years in Tibet, therefore, and amused myself by visiting Lhassa, and spending some days with the head lama. You may have read of the remarkable explorations of a Norwegian named Sigerson, but I am sure that it never occurred to you that you were receiving news of your friend." Nicholas Meyer makes reference to this line in Holmes's parting comment to Watson in The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (quotes).
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Gene Wilder's directorial debut.
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In the scene which Moriarty is auctioning off the Redcliff Document to a Russian and a Frenchman, the Russian bids 5000 Rubles which equals 625 pounds. The Frenchman then bids 7000 Francs, which equals 626 pounds, only 1 pound more than the Russian bid.
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Gene Wilder performed a number of duties on this movie. Wilder was the lead actor in the central role, scriptwriter, performer of songs and the film's director.
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Frequently appearing together in this film as Sigerson Holmes and Sgt. Orville Stanley Sacker, this movie marked the re-teaming of Gene Wilder and Marty Feldman who had played Dr Frankenstein and his assistant Igor just a year before in Mel Brooks' Young Frankenstein.
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The 1970s were an era for a number of Sherlock Holmes comedies. This movie was made and released about five years after Billy Wilder's comedy The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, just under a year before The Seven-Per-Cent Solution and three years before The Hound of the Baskervilles. It was made thirteen years before Without a Clue.
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Gene Wilder's character's first name, Sigerson, was an alias used by Sherlock Holmes during the period in which he was believed to have been killed by Professor Moriarty, in Arthur Conan Doyle's short story 'The Adventure of the Empty House'.
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The film's title and story set-up are an in-joke referring to Sherlock Holmes' older brother, Mycroft Holmes, who is introduced in Arthur Conan Doyle's story 'The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter' and described as Sherlock's intellectual superior. In Doyle's short story 'The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans' Sherlock describes the British government's reliance on Mycroft's prodigious intellectual powers as follows: "You are right in thinking that he is under the British government. You would also be right in a sense if you said that occasionally he is the British government . . . Mycroft draws four hundred and fifty pounds a year, remains a subordinate, has no ambitions of any kind, will receive neither honour nor title, but remains the most indispensable man in the country."
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The main leads of this movie, Gene Wilder, Marty Feldman and Madeline Kahn, all appeared a year earlier in Mel Brooks' Young Frankenstein.
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Gene Wilder once said that this film was "a terrifying commitment".
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Apparently, Gene Wilder asked Mel Brooks to direct this picture but declined stating that he would find it difficult to direct a screenplay that wasn't his own conception. Gene Wilder said, "I couldn't get Mel to direct it." Brooks did say though that Wilder should go off and make this film, could call upon him day or night and after making this movie, Gene Wilder better "come back home as soon as you're done!"
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This movie is notable for its catchy and memorable "Kangaroo Hop" musical dance number.
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As the voice of departing assassin after choosing the "lady" door over the "tiger" door only to discover they're both tiger doors.
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Albert Finney:
At the start of the opera sequence, he has a sentence about the quality of the opera singers.
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