Christopher Lee's Holmes teams with Freud to stop WWI? This 3-hour fever dream dares to ask: why not?!
Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson get involved with Balkan terrorists to save Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria from an assassination at the opera house and prevent World War I.
Acting
Christopher Lee towers; Patrick Macnee's Watson is unbothered excellence.
Costume
Morgan Fairchild's gowns deserve their own credit sequence.
Production
Vienna locations make the runtime almost justified.
Director
Peter Sasdy
Christopher Lee
Sherlock Holmes
Patrick Macnee
Dr. Watson
Morgan Fairchild
Irene Frances Adler
John Bennett
Sigmund Freud
Michael Siberry
Franz Winterhauser
Dominic Jephcott
Major Von Bork
Frank Middlemass
Dr. Froelich
James Bree
Franz Dietrich
Tom Chadbon
Zygovich
Paul Humpoletz
Hugo Oberstein
Ronald Hines
Reginald Cholmondley
Nicholas Gecks
Michael Simpson-Makepeace
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Christopher Lee's second time playing Holmes; he previously voiced him in 1980s German radio dramas and would play him again in 2010's 'Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace.'
The film brazenly combines two incompatible Holmes pastiches—Nicholas Meyer's 'The Seven-Per-Cent Solution' (Freud) and 'A Scandal in Bohemia' (Irene)—into one gloriously overstuffed narrative.
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