Product: Seven Per Cent Solution [VHS] (1976)
Rating: 5.0
The Only Sherlock Holmes
Merging the historical and fictional characters of Sherlock Holmes and Sigmund Freud was pure genius on Nicholas Meyer's part. They were brought to life admirably by the talented actors: Alan Arkin and Nicol Williamson as well as Robert Duvall, whose treatment of Watson not only was true to the good Doctor as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle imagined him, but he mananged to make him much more interesting and much less of a stodgy old dolt that too many movies interpreted. Having watched dozens of actors play the great detective, I can say with complete confidence that Mr. Williamson must have channeled Conan Doyle because his portrayal is arguably the best interpretation of Sherlock Holmes I've ever seen.