Elementary, Watson! (and please pass the opium.)

Thanks to the efforts of a friend, I got to see The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes recently. I enjoyed this movie a good deal, although I enjoyed it more for the “Private Life” stuff than for the film’s actual mystery story. The film’s first half-hour or so is delightful, and the two actors playing Holmes and Watson are excellent, with good chemistry. The score gave me some pause, though: it is by Miklos Rozsa, and is wonderful music in itself (based, in large part, on Rozsa’s own Violin Concerto). But I found the music’s Hungarian character a bit at odds with the film’s British settings. (Rozsa himself makes a cameo in the film, as – – what else? – – an orchestra conductor.)

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