Word: sherlock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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AFRENZIED Sherlock Holmes opens his door a crack and peers out at Dr. Watson with sharp, glittering eyes. Years of heavy cocaine consumption have finally taken their toll; Holmes is paranoid, obsessed with the belief that his arch-enemy Moriarty is after him. The Seven Percent Solution, the most recent in a flood of Sherlock Holmes films released in the last few years, depicts a Holmes who still has all of his marvellously keen powers of perception but who has lost his grasp on reality. The detective master-mind who embodies the power of rationality, who penetrates the most obscure...
...fact, just such a device-or one mighty similar to it-was specially ordered by Holy Peters in The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax, a Sherlock Holmes short story...
Something is much amiss here, and Sherlock Holmes should be just the man to put it right. Unfortunately, Holmes may be on hand in The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, but he is not fully present. He appears quite prominently-gamely played by Nicol Williamson-but the spirit of the master sleuth is nowhere to be found. Instead of pursuing his customary invigorating adventures, Holmes becomes enmeshed in a slack, sorry matter involving anti-Semites, a pasha, an abducted actress, a train race and Dr. Sigmund Freud...
...Seven-Per-Cent Solution puts one wistfully in mind of Billy Wilder's The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970), a lovely, melancholy evocation of the master sleuth. It was a ravishing movie, misunderstood and ignored on its first release. Now should be just the time for another look at it. The movie features portraits of Holmes (by Robert Stephens) and Watson (by Colin Blakely) that are virtually definitive and thoroughly captivating. Director Wilder showed respect for Conan Doyle, with out slavish devotion, and managed to make the two sleuths real men even as he dealt with them...
...Obviously there is abuse in the grading system," Sherlock said. "Students choose courses to a certain extent on the basis of grades they can get in them. Unfortunately, the proposal gives no understanding of what went into each grade and how hard a student works...