Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 113 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom, United States
- Frights
- Mild
The story
Concerned about his friend's cocaine use, Dr. Watson tricks Sherlock Holmes into travelling to Vienna, where Holmes enters the care of Sigmund Freud. Freud attempts to solve the mysteries of Holmes' subconscious, while Holmes devotes himself to solving a mystery involving the kidnapping of Lola Deveraux.
- based on novel or book
- kidnapping
- drug addiction
- cocaine
- orient express
- train hijacking
- baron
- vienna
- austria
- hypnotism
- 19th century
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Alan Arkin
Dr. Sigmund Freud
Vanessa Redgrave
Lola Deveraux
Robert Duvall
Dr. John H. Watson
Nicol Williamson
Sherlock Holmes
- Laurence Olivier — Professor James Moriarty
- Joel Grey — Lowenstein
- Samantha Eggar — Mary Morstan Watson
- Jeremy Kemp — Baron Karl von Leinsdorf
- Charles Gray — Mycroft Holmes
- Régine — Madame
- Anna Quayle — Freda
- Georgia Brown — Mrs. Freud
- Jill Townsend — Mrs. Holmes
- John Bird — Berger
- Alison Leggatt — Mrs. Hudson
- Directed
- Herbert Ross
- Written
- Nicholas Meyer
Production
- Rating
- 6.2 / 10 · 112 ratings
- Studio
- Herbert Ross Productions, Universal Pictures, Alex Winitsky / Arlene Sellers Productions
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