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The Seven-Per-cent Solution By Marshall Fine
Writer Nicholas Meyer (who went on to write two of the best Star
Trek films) made his bones with his adaptation of his bestselling
novel, directed by Herbert Ross. Fanciful and entertaining, it imagines
what might have happened had Dr. Watson (Robert Duvall) convinced Sherlock
Holmes (Nicol Williamson) to seek a cure for his cocaine addiction from
Dr. Sigmund Freud (Alan Arkin). This meeting of the minds takes a turn
into adventure when Holmes and Freud team up to solve a kidnapping
mystery. Arkin is intriguingly likable as Freud, while Williamson makes a
keen and frenetic Holmes. Duvall is almost unrecognizable as the
avuncular, phlegmatic Watson. Laurence Olivier turns up as Professor
Moriarty, who is hardly the criminal mastermind that the drug-deluded
Holmes believes.
Academy Awards
The Seven-Per-cent Solution received Academy
Awards nominations for Writing (Best Screenplay based on material from
another medium; Nicholas Meyer) and Costume Design (Alan Barrett).). |
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