The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
Mr. Holmes is convinced that I am some sort of criminal mastermind of the most depraved order
Sherlock Holmes (Nicol Williamson) is living in a paranoid world of cocaine addiction, secluding himself from the outside world. He is harassing Professor Moriarty (Laurence Olivier), his former mathematics tutor; he is convinced that Moriarty is the incarnation of evil.
With the help of Holmes's brother Mycroft (Charles Gray), Dr. Watson (Robert Duvall) hatches and executes a plot to get Sherlock to Vienna for treatment by the famous Dr. Sigmund Freud (Alan Arkin). The treatment is successful and Holmes, recuperated and refreshed, is ready to return the favor by offering to help another of Freud's patients.
The fraulein Lola Devereux (Vanessa Redgrave) is a beautiful and famous mezzo-soprano who recently escaped bunch of mysterious captors who had abducted her. Both Holmes and Freud feel personally motivated to find the perpetrators of this crime and join forces in order to solve this mystery.
Cast:
- Robert Duvall ... Dr. John H. Watson / Narrator
- Laurence Olivier ... Professor James Moriarty
- Vanessa Redgrave ... Lola Deveraux
- Alan Arkin ... Dr. Sigmund Freud
- Nicol Williamson ... Sherlock Holmes
- Régine ... Madame
- Georgia Brown ... Mrs. Freud
- Samantha Eggar ... Mary Morstan Watson
- Charles Gray ... Mycroft Holmes
- Joel Grey ... Lowenstein
- Jeremy Kemp ... Baron von Leinsdorf
- Alison Leggatt ... Mrs. Hudson
- Anna Quayle ... Freda
- (Herbert Ross ... Director)
- Alan Arkin - Dr. Sigmund Freud
- Alison Leggatt - Mrs. Hudson
- Anna Quayle - Freda
- Ashley House - Young Freud
- Charles Gray - Mycroft Holmes
- Drewe Henley -
- Erich Padalewski - Station Master
- Erik Chitty - The Butler
- Frederick Jaeger - Marker
- Georgia Brown - Mrs. Freud
- Gertan Klauber - The Pasha
- Harry Fielder - Drunk Man
- Jack May - Dr. Schultz
- Jeremy Kemp - Baron Karl von Leinsdorf
- Jill Townsend - Mrs. Holmes
- Joel Grey - Lowenstein
- John Bird - Berger
- John Hill - Train Engineer
- Laurence Olivier - Professor James Moriarty
- Leon Greene - Squire Holmes
- Michael Blagdon - Young Holmes
- Nicol Williamson - Sherlock Holmes
- Régine - Madame
- Robert Duvall - Dr. John H. Watson / Narrator
- Samantha Eggar - Mary Morstan Watson
- Sheila Shand Gibbs - Nun
- Vanessa Redgrave - Lola Deveraux
- Herbert Ross - Director
- Arthur Conan Doyle - (characters)
- Nicholas Meyer - (novel)
- John Addison - Composer
- Alex Winitsky - executive producer
- Arlene Sellers - executive producer
- Herbert Ross - producer
- Stanley O'Toole - associate producer
- The Madames Song / Written by Stephen Sondheim / Performed by Régine
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106 years ago, Laurence Olivier † was born. (Professor James Moriarty)