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Arthur Conan Doyle (characters)
William Gillette (play)
Release Date:
15 November 1981 (USA) more
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Prof. Moriarity returns to kill Sherlock Holmes, and unleashes a complex and clever plan to lure the great detective to his death. | add synopsis
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Sir A.C.Doyle would be proud more (12 total)
Cast
(Credited cast) | Frank Langella | ... | Sherlock Holmes |
 | Susan Clark | ... | Madge Larrabee |
 | Stephen Collins | ... | Larrabee |
| Richard Woods | ... | Dr. John H. Watson |
| George Morfogen | ... | Prof. Moriarty |
| Laurie Kennedy | ... | Alice Faulkner |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Tom Atkins | ... | Craigin |
| Louis Beachner | ... | Sidney Prince |
| Robert Brolli | ... | Forton |
| Yusef Bulos | ... | Count von Stalburg |
| William Duell | ... | Parsons |
| Hugo N. Furst | ... | Cab man |
| Jennifer Harmon | ... | Mrs. Smeedley |
| Frank Maraden | ... | Leary |
| Sebastian Moran | ... | Old gentleman |
| Michael Quill | ... | John |
| Dwight Schultz | ... | Bassick |
 | Christian Slater | ... | Billy |
| Ralph Strait | ... | McTeague |
| John Tillinger | ... | Sir Edward Leighton |
| Barbette Tweed | ... | Terese |
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Sherlock Holmes: The Strange Case of Alice Faulkner (USA) (alternative title)
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USA:110 min
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Christian Slater's feature film debut. Coincidentally, his father Michael Hawkins also made his feature film debut in a Sherlock Holmes film portraying Lord Caphill in The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959). more
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Version of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939) more
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This portrayal of the character of Holmes was done as if he were a real true to life type hero. Flesh and blood with flaws and feelings. The usual actor would play him as a flawless calculating type superman who has no hang ups or issues with people in general. Holmes is a very flawed 'human' when you flesh him out and he would have been the man that Langella showed us in this production.
If Holmes was such a perfect character then why can't he master the violin? Why the addictions? Why does he refuse a romantic life with a woman? He's very much a real being and if met in life most people might find him a bit like our modern day MONK from the t.v. series. "Elementary my dear Watson..."
Most of the fabulous characters that we now adore in the detective world in film and television are just like him but updated to a more modern type of person. If this man took drugs to make him more normal as we do with intense personalities, he'd never have been the fabulous character that he's always been to us. Thank God Holmes was never introduced to Prozac!