Young Sherlock Holmes

When assorted people start having inexplicable delusions that lead to their deaths, a teenage Sherlock Holmes decides to investigate.

• Director: Barry Levinson
• Genre:Adventure / Family / Fantasy / Mystery / Sci-Fi / Thriller
• Runtime:104 minutes

Cast

Nicholas Rowe : Sherlock Holmes
Alan Cox : John Watson
Sophie Ward : Elizabeth Hardy
Anthony Higgins : Professor Rathe
Susan Fleetwood : Mrs. Dribb

Teenagers John Watson and Sherlock Holmes meet at the prestigious Brompton Academy. The reticent Watson and intellectual Holmes quickly become good friends as they begin their studies together. Watson also meets Holmes’s mentor Rupert T. Waxflatter, a retired schoolmaster and inventor working on a complete self-propelled, heavier-than-air aircraft. His niece, Elizabeth, is also Holmes’s close friend and love interest; Holmes competes for her affections with fellow student Dudley.

At the same time, two prominent men, Mr. Bobster and Rev. Nesbitt fall victim to a hallucinogen which drives them to their deaths. Noticing newspaper clippings of their deaths in Waxflatter’s office, Holmes starts to notice a connection between them. He takes his suspicions to investigator Mr. LeStrade, only to be rebuffed. Later, Holmes is expelled from the Academy due to Dudley’s machinations. Before he leaves, Holmes has one last match with his fencing instructor and equal Prof. Rathe; he only loses due to being distracted by Rathe’s ring. Meanwhile, the mysterious hooded figure responsible for the deaths poisons Waxflatter, driving him to suicide as he attacks imaginary gargoyles. His last words to Holmes are “Eh-Tar.”

Having been barred from attending Waxflatter’s funeral after being expelled from the school grounds, Holmes instead meets with Watson and Elizabeth to discuss the deaths that he determines to be murders. Piecing together the first clues: a jingling sound, a piece of cloth, and a blowpipe, the three of them discovers the existence of Rame Tep, an ancient cult of Osiris worshippers. The cult’s main weapons were blowpipes, which shot thorns dipped into a solution made up of various plant and root extracts. When this solution entered the bloodstream, it caused the victim to experience very realistic, nightmare-like hallucinations, driving them to their deaths. Their investigation then leads to a warehouse of Froggit and Froggit, a Wapping-area manufacturer; they then discover a modern-day revival of Rame Tep. When they interrupt the ceremonial sacrifice of a young girl, the three are attacked by the worshippers. Only through Holmes’s endurance and the intervention of a graveyard caretaker are the three able to survive the hallucinations. Read more

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