Product: Seven Per Cent Solution [VHS] (1976)
Rating: 5.0
A Sheer Delight
For starters I'm not a Sherlock Holmes fan or am I familiar with the work of Sigmund Freud. That said I absolutely loved this movie. It's virtually flawless in every respect. Terrific performances by the leads(Nicol Williamson, Alan Arkin, Robert Duvall). Sumptuous art direction, costuming, and cinematography. The real star is the script by Nicholas Meyer that ingeniously melds the police forensics of Doyle with the psychoanalytical of Freud. Leave it to the experts to tell me if I'm wrong in this respect. Meyer later wrote and directed one of my personal faves, "Time After Time", that concerns H.G. Wells tracking Jack the Ripper to latter day San Francisco and falling in love in the process. Not to appear one-note Meyer later directed one of the more successful "Star Trek" movies, "The Wrath of Khan". I know there are afficianadoes of both Doyle and Freud who may find fault. For sheer entertainment value "The Seven-Per-Cent Solution" can't be beat.