The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976)
Country: US
Technical: col 114m
Director: Herbert Ross
Cast: Nicol Williamson, Robert Duvall, Alan Arkin, Vanessa Redgrave
Synopsis:
Watson tricks Holmes into travelling to Austria so that Freud can cure him of his cocaine addiction, and they are soon embroiled in the case of one of the professor's former successes.
Review:
Extraordinarily misjudged enterprise that at once seeks to give the disturbing truth behind the legend through psycho-analysis and pass as a spoof in case this is too much for audiences. Thus we have Williamson over-acting atrociously and the miscasting of Duvall with a Terry Jones English accent as Dr Watson. The production is poor by the standards of Wilder's altogether better-judged affair, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (qv.).
Country: US
Technical: col 114m
Director: Herbert Ross
Cast: Nicol Williamson, Robert Duvall, Alan Arkin, Vanessa Redgrave
Synopsis:
Watson tricks Holmes into travelling to Austria so that Freud can cure him of his cocaine addiction, and they are soon embroiled in the case of one of the professor's former successes.
Review:
Extraordinarily misjudged enterprise that at once seeks to give the disturbing truth behind the legend through psycho-analysis and pass as a spoof in case this is too much for audiences. Thus we have Williamson over-acting atrociously and the miscasting of Duvall with a Terry Jones English accent as Dr Watson. The production is poor by the standards of Wilder's altogether better-judged affair, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (qv.).
Country: US
Technical: col 114m
Director: Herbert Ross
Cast: Nicol Williamson, Robert Duvall, Alan Arkin, Vanessa Redgrave
Synopsis:
Watson tricks Holmes into travelling to Austria so that Freud can cure him of his cocaine addiction, and they are soon embroiled in the case of one of the professor's former successes.
Review:
Extraordinarily misjudged enterprise that at once seeks to give the disturbing truth behind the legend through psycho-analysis and pass as a spoof in case this is too much for audiences. Thus we have Williamson over-acting atrociously and the miscasting of Duvall with a Terry Jones English accent as Dr Watson. The production is poor by the standards of Wilder's altogether better-judged affair, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (qv.).