Young Sherlock Holmes (1985) on Netflix
PG-1319851h 49mAdventureFantasyMystery
After his old school closes, John Watson transfers to London's Brompton Academy, where Sherlock Holmes befriends him. Two men are shot with thorns, and Holmes investigates.
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John Watson transfers to Brompton Academy in London after the school he attended in the countryside closes, and Sherlock Holmes befriends him straight away. The school gives Rupert Waxflatter, a retired professor, a large attic for his inventions, among them a flying machine, and Holmes loves Waxflatter's niece, Elizabeth Hardy. In another part of London, a hooded attacker fires thorns from a blowpipe at Bentley Bobster and at the Reverend Duncan Nesbitt. The thorns bring on nightmarish hallucinations, and each man appears to take his own life. Holmes takes his suspicion of foul play to the Scotland Yard detective Lestrade, who will not hear it. The rival pupil Dudley, envious of Holmes and Elizabeth, frames Holmes for cheating in an exam.
Cast
- Matthew Ryanas Dudley's Friend
- Earl Rhodesas Dudley
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Young Sherlock Holmes (1985)
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- The film included the first fully computer-generated photorealistic animated character, a knight composed of elements from a stained glass window, created by John Lasseter and Pixar, then a division of Lucasfilm; it was also the first CG character scanned and painted directly onto film using an RGB laser.
- Young Sherlock Holmes was the first full-length film to feature a completely computer-generated character, created by Lucasfilm's Pixar Computer Animation Group, a landmark in special effects history that influenced later CGI features such as Pixar's Toy Story.
- When Steven Spielberg came aboard as executive producer he wanted the script to capture the Victorian era, so he had the noted Sherlockian John Bennett Shaw read the screenplay and give notes, then had English novelist Jeffrey Archer act as script doctor to anglicise it.
- Stop motion was used for the harpy sequence, while the pastry creatures that attack Watson were rod puppets shot against a blue screen; the pastries were live action, but filmed with fewer frames per second, sometimes as low as eight.
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