Young Sherlock Holmes

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Actors: Freddie Jones , Nicholas Rowe , Roger Ashton-Griffiths , Nigel Stock , Brian Oulton , Anthony Higgins , Sophie Ward , Susan Fleetwood , Jonathan Lacey , Matthew Ryan , Patrick Newell , Alan Cox , Matthew Blakstad , Donald Eccles , Earl Rhodes

Director: Barry Levinson

IMDB Rate: 6.5 out of 10 (6847 votes)

Plot Summary:This 1985 adventure directed by Barry Levinson (Rain Man) and written by Chris Columbus (Gremlins) may not have much to do with the Sherlock Holmes of Arthur Conan Doyles invention. But it is a delightful and somewhat unexpected combination of exciting elements Victorian-era, foggy-London mystique, Gothic horror, and Indiana Jones-like exotica. Nicholas Rowe plays Holmes as a schoolboy at a boarding academy for young men. Paired with the owlish, reticent young Watson (Alan Cox), Holmes embarks on the solution of a mystery that involves a hallucinatory and lethal drug, and a religious cult celebrating ancient Egyptian rites of mummification. Levinson makes handsome and crisp work of this Steven Spielberg production, without a trace of the treacle that often found its way into other Spielbergian projects at the time (The Goonies). Rowe is wonderfully convincing as a teen incarnation of the Great Detective, and while Cox mostly maintains Hollywoods traditionally unflattering idea of Watson, he does bring warmth and comedy to the role. The cast includes Freddie Jones as an eccentric inventor, Anthony Higgins as the villain, and Sophie Ward as Holmess love interest.Sophie Ward as Holmess love interest.