Young Sherlock Holmes

Name: Young Sherlock Holmes
Genre: Adventure, Mystery, Thriller, Fantasy
Released: December 4, 1985
Duration: 109 min
Rating: 65
Cast: Alan Cox, Anthony Higgins, Brian Oulton, Earl Rhodes, Freddie Jones

1985

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Paramount Pictures | Release Date: December 4, 1985 | PG-13

Starring: Alan Cox, Anthony Higgins, Brian Oulton, Earl Rhodes, Freddie Jones, Nicholas Rowe, Nigel Stock, Roger Ashton-Griffiths, Sophie Ward, Susan Fleetwood

Summary: When assorted people start having inexplicable delusions that lead to their deaths, a teenage Sherlock Holmes (Nicholas Rowe) decides to investigate.

Director: Barry Levinson

Genre(s): Adventure, Mystery, Thriller, Fantasy

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 109 min

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Vincent Canby

Not only the best movie to feature an Egyptian blowgun in several years, but also one of the few really stylish and entertaining American movies of 1985. Read full review

Marjorie Baumgarten

The more one knows about Holmes lore, the more the film's foreshadowings of future cases will be evident. Set in a boys boarding school, the film's imaginings about the life of the young detective are quite entertaining. Read full review

Roger Ebert

The elaborate special effects also seem a little out of place in a Sherlock Holmes movie, although I'm willing to forgive them because they were fun. Read full review

David Sterritt

Many episodes have an appealingly old-fashioned air, but the classic mood is disrupted by some violent hallucination scenes with jarringly modern special effects. [27 Dec, 1985 p.19]