The Seven-Per-Cent Solution

[moonfleet]

Is the -7% solution- a british film or not ?....with N.Willamson,R.Duval, L.Olivier
directed by the same who commit -Time after Time- Nicholas Meyer

[batman]

The Holmes film is considered a US/UK co-production. Nicholas Meyer did not direct it, he wrote the original novel. Herbert Ross directed the film.

[moonfleet]

Original film where Freud helps Holmes taking off from cocaïne, there's also V.Redgrave in it too, a very well done film I think....

[Windthrop]

Originally Posted by moonfleet Original film where Freud helps Holmes taking off from cocaïne, there's also V.Redgrave in it too, a very well done film I think....

The normally excellent Duval lets it down badly as Watson IMHO

[batman]

Originally Posted by Windthrop The normally excellent Duval lets it down badly as Watson IMHO

Agreed.

[D Cairns]

Really nice design from Ken Adam -- in Holmes' study, when he's mad, all the books on the shelves are leaving at angles, creating a sense of disorder and chaos.

[CaptainWaggett]

It's got an original Stephen Sondheim song which is always a nice bonus.

[moonfleet]

Also the action scenes are very well directed, with the horses in the arena, the tennis match (between Freud and a "very nationalist" prussian !), on the train, I don't think Conan Doyle wrote it,like when S.H meet the ripper for example, but , for me it's a very good scipt. The encounter of two myths is always interesting, no ? And, at the end, he goes on a Danub trip with a woman, getting some rest (,...and without Watson !), very unuasual .....
The actor who play S.H as also interpreted Merlin in Excalibur, I think.
M.

[batman]

Originally Posted by moonfleet Also the action scenes are very well directed, with the horses in the arena, the tennis match (between Freud and a "very nationalist" prussian !), on the train, I don't think Conan Doyle wrote it,like when S.H meet the ripper for example, but , for me it's a very good scipt. The encounter of two myths is always interesting, no ? And, at the end, he goes on a Danub trip with a woman, getting some rest (,...and without Watson !), very unuasual ..... The actor who play S.H as also interpreted Merlin in Excalibur, I think. M.

As stated in an earlier post, it is from a novel by Nicholas Meyer.