no story here, and certainly no mystery." Charles Champlin of the Los Angeles Times declared it "a light, easy, brisk but unforced, professional, kindly and ingratiating trip through Holmes' sweet home as it never was". Gary Arnold of The Washington Post called it "an enjoyable, encouraging beginning" to Wilder's career as a writer-director that "reveals a surprisingly inventive and conscientious comic imagination at work". Pauline Kael of The New Yorker wrote that Wilder "wrote the roles for the actors but didn't write characters for them to play. He provided lots of lovely, sideswiping bits of business but no conceptions that would allow the actors to surprise us with something new or that would enable us to get involved in what's happening to them." John Pym of The Monthly Film Bulletin called it "better in its parts than as a whole, and essentially a showcase for the individual performances of Wilder himself, Marty Feldman, Madeline Kahn and, particularly, the perpetually energised, rubber-faced Dom DeLuise." Home media The film was released on DVD on April 4, 2006. See also List of American films of 1975 References External links 1975 films 1975 comedy films 1975 directorial debut films 1970s comedy mystery films 1970s English-language films 1970s musical comedy films 1970s parody films 20th Century Fox films American comedy mystery films American comedy thriller films American musical comedy films American parody films Films directed by Gene Wilder Films scored by John Morris Films set in 1891 Films with screenplays by Gene Wilder Sherlock Holmes films Sherlock Holmes pastiches 1970s American films