Movie
Young Sherlock Holmes
Suspense/thriller film with a runtime of 109 minutes, released in 1985. Presented in English.
At a Glance
Synopsis
Barry Levinson's family film, scripted by Chris Columbus, stars Nicholas Rowe as Sherlock Holmes and Alan Cox as John Watson who meet up as teenagers at boarding school. Holmes, already exercising his detective skills becomes interested in the seemingly unconnected deaths of prominent men and, thanks to his deductive powers, solves the case before the police can but not before placing himself and Watson in mortal peril. The influence of Steven Spielberg as executive producer can be seen, with scenes that could have appeared in The Goonies or Indiana Jones, but Levinson gives the film its own distinctive style. Nigel Stock plays an eccentric teacher at the school; he played Watson in the 1960s BBC TV series.
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Cast
- Nicholas Rowe
- Nicolas Rowe
- Alan Cox
- Sophie Ward
- Anthony Higgins
- Susan Fleetwood
- Freddie Jones
- Nigel Stock
- Roger Ashton-Griffiths
- Earl Rhodes
- Brian Oulton
- Patrick Newell
- Donald Eccles
- Matthew Ryan
- Matthew Blaksted
- Jonathan Lacey
- Walter Sparrow
- Nadim Sawalha
- Roger Brierley
- Vivienne Chandler
- Lockwood West
- John Scott Martin
- George Malpas
- Willoughby Goddard
- Michael Cule
- Ralph Tabakin
- Nancy Nevinson
- Michael Hordern
- Stu Linder
- Michael J. Benavente
- Norman Reynolds
- Kit West
- Harry Benn
- Chris Columbus
- John R. Ellis
- Steven Spielberg
- Stephen Goldblatt
- Charles Bishop
- Michael Ford
- Raymond Hughes
- Frank Marshall
- Peter Robb-King
- Kathleen Kennedy
- Michael Hordern
- Nick Dudman
- Jane Royle
- David Allen
- Fred Hole
- Dennis Muren
- Marc Boyle
