1976
Director: Herbert Ross Writer: Nicholas Meyer
Actors: Nicol Williamson, Robert Duvall, Alan Arkin, Vanessa Redgrave
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Now here's a novel idea- we all know Sherlock Holmes is a cocaine addict, so why not have him get put into rehab for it by... Sigmund Freud? The actual movie is a bit goofier than it looks in print, but it was still fun.
Dr. Watson (Robert Duvall) conspires to get Holmes (Nicol Williamson) to Dr. Freud (Alan Arkin) with the promise of a case. He does, in fact, get a case. He also gets time in a sort of makeshift rehab center, after Freud details his own successful struggle to kick a cocaine habit.The rest of the movie is an amalgam of Holmes and Freud trying to overcome Holmes's cocaine habit while simultaneously trying to solve the case they just happen to stumble on. In the process, he finds that his aversion to women and his obsession with Professor Moriarty (actually mostly harmless) are the result of -big surprise- childhood traumas.
While it is a little goofy, and Nicol Williamson is woefully miscast as the neurotic, intensely intellectual Sherlock Holmes, it is fun to watch Holmes get taken down a notch without getting taken down all the way. There are plenty of lively chases and entertaining hallucination sequences, and although I didn't even recognize Alan Arkin as Sigmund Freud, his laidback performance was quite good. The movie even ends with Holmes and the villian swordfighting on top of a moving getaway train! OK, so it's not classic cinema. But it is a pleasant diversion.
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