Young Sherlock Holmes (1985)

Directors

Barry Levinson

Cast

Nicholas Rowe, Alan Cox, Sophie Ward, Anthony Higgins, Susan Fleetwood, Nigel Stock, Freddie Jones, Brian Oulton, Roger Ashton-Griffiths, Earl Rhodes

The story

Following the closure of his old school in the countryside, a young John Watson is transferred to London's Brompton Academy, where Sherlock Holmes befriends him immediately. Holmes's mentors there include Rupert Waxflatter, an eccentric retired professor to whom the school has given a large attic space for his inventions, which include a flying machine. Waxflatter's niece Elizabeth Hardy and Holmes are in love.

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