Movie Review: 'The Seven-Per-Cent Solution'
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution is not a Sherlock Holmes movie. It's a movie about Sherlock Holmes. That's different. - Nicholas Meyer, When Sherlock Met Sigmund Before the mid-1970s, most moviegoers' memories of Sherlock Holmes centered on the 14 films that featured Basil Rathbone as Holmes and Nigel Bruce as his friend and biographer Dr. John Watson. Starting with 20th Century Fox's The Hound of the Baskervilles and The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - both made and released in 1939 - and continuing with 12 more films produced by Universal Pictures, Rathbone and Bruce created a stereotypical version of Holmes and Watson: the former being the pipe-smoking, violin-playing great detective, slim and taciturn beneath his deerstalker hat, while the latter was the rotund, jovial, and easily amazed sidekick. Below is a sample from one of those old Basil Rathbone Sherlock Holmes movies: Sherlock Holmes : There are still some gaps to be filled, but all in all, things are...