- Film Review
- Reviewed By Tom Hutchinson
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3 out of 5
Director Barry Levinson, working for Steven Spielberg's production company Amblin, gives a sensational, even supernatural, slant to this supposed biography of the young sleuth, which is hardly surprising considering the film's pedigree. As an account of the detective team's first meeting at school, it's quite commendable - Nicholas Rowe is a dashing Holmes, Alan Cox a solid Watson - but it's rather deficient in the proper atmosphere of hansom cabs and ugly deeds.
Plot Summary
The teenage detective and his future sidekick Watson meet for the first time at boarding school. The death of Holmes's mentor sets the youngsters on their first case, and they discover that former members of an archaeological survey team have died under suspicious circumstances - pointing to a sinister Egyptian cult using hallucinogenic poisons to kill its victims. Adventure, starring Nicholas Rowe, Alan Cox and Sophie Ward.
Cast and crew
Cast
- Sherlock Holmes
- Nicholas Rowe
- John Watson
- Alan Cox
- Rathe
- Anthony Higgins
- Chester Cragwitch
- Freddie Jones
- Elizabeth
- Sophie Ward
- Mrs Dribb
- Susan Fleetwood
- Waxflatter
- Nigel Stock
- Lestrade
- Roger Ashton-Griffiths
- Dudley Badcock
- Earl Rhodes
- Master Snelgrove
- Brian Oulton
- Bentley Bobster
- Patrick Newell
- Reverend Duncan Nesbitt
- Donald Eccles
- Voice Of Older Watson
- Michael Hordern
Crew
- Director
- Barry Levinson
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