Product: Seven Per Cent Solution [VHS] (1976)
Rating: 4.0
Fun Sherlock Pastiche with Stellar Cast
This blueray/DVD combo makes newly available a neglected gem with a fun premise and a truly great cast. Robert Duvall plays Watson, Alan Arkin plays Sigmund Freud (treating Holmes for his cocaine addiction!), and also featuring Laurence Olivier and Vanessa Redgrave. Sherlock is played by a great and rather underrated English actor, Nicol Williamson (I saw him in the late 60s in the title role in British stage production of "Hamlet" and he was incredible -- sadly, he passed away in late 2012).One of the best extra features on this disc is a new on-camera interview with Nicolas Meyer who wrote the screenplay from his own novel, and would go on to write and direct the best Stat Trek movie, "ST II, The Wrath of Khan."