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Young Sherlock Holmes - Sherlock Holmes VHS Video
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Young Sherlock Holmes - Sherlock Holmes VHS Video
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Director: Barry Levinson
Format: Color, Closed-captioned, HiFi Sound, NTSC
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Studio: Paramount Studio
Video Release Date: July 30, 1990
VHS Features:
- NTSC format (US and Canada only. This VHS will probably NOT be viewable in other countries. Read more about DVD widescreen
- Average Customer Review:
 Based on 62 reviews.
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Amazon.com
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 Doyle's 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 Hollywood's 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 Holmes's love interest. --Tom Keogh
Reader Reviews
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
Splendid Spielberg, September 3, 2003
Reviewer:
therooksnook
from Burke, VA USA
Although a good deal of literary license is taken to bring us a young version of Sherlock, it is a delightful renditon that I think even Arthur Conan Doyle would appreciate. The Spielberg and Levin magic that later went into the Young Indiana Jones movies was well established in this movie. The cast, sets, and music are excellent. Any fan of the Harry Potter series should love this movie. It starts out with young Sherlock going to a private school and meeting Watson for the first time. As he unravels the mystery of an underground society that worships the occult in a hidden pyramid he meets his nemesis Moriarty for the first time. The movie is magical and draws the viewer into a wonderful world of Victorian England. Be sure to get the DVD since the picture and sound quality are better and it offers a few extras.
--This text refers to the DVD edition.
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