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Le Secret de la pyramide

Original title: Young Sherlock Holmes
  • 1985
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  • 1h 49m
IMDb RATING
6.8/10
24K
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Sophie Ward, Alan Cox, and Nicholas Rowe in Le Secret de la pyramide (1985)
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When assorted people start having inexplicable delusions that lead to their deaths, a teenage Sherlock Holmes decides to investigate.When assorted people start having inexplicable delusions that lead to their deaths, a teenage Sherlock Holmes decides to investigate.When assorted people start having inexplicable delusions that lead to their deaths, a teenage Sherlock Holmes decides to investigate.

  • Director
    • Barry Levinson
  • Writers
    • Arthur Conan Doyle
    • Chris Columbus
  • Stars
    • Nicholas Rowe
    • Alan Cox
    • Sophie Ward
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  • IMDb RATING
    6.8/10
    24K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Barry Levinson
    • Writers
      • Arthur Conan Doyle
      • Chris Columbus
    • Stars
      • Nicholas Rowe
      • Alan Cox
      • Sophie Ward
    • 121User reviews
    • 90Critic reviews
    • 65Metascore
  • See production info at IMDbPro
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    • Nominated for 1 Oscar
      • 1 win & 5 nominations total

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    Nicholas Rowe
    Nicholas Rowe
    • Sherlock Holmes
    Alan Cox
    Alan Cox
    • John Watson
    Sophie Ward
    Sophie Ward
    • Elizabeth Hardy
    Anthony Higgins
    Anthony Higgins
    • Professor Rathe
    Susan Fleetwood
    Susan Fleetwood
    • Mrs. Dribb
    Freddie Jones
    Freddie Jones
    • Chester Cragwitch
    Nigel Stock
    Nigel Stock
    • Rupert T. Waxflatter
    Roger Ashton-Griffiths
    Roger Ashton-Griffiths
    • Det. Sgt. Lestrade
    Earl Rhodes
    Earl Rhodes
    • Dudley
    Brian Oulton
    Brian Oulton
    • Master Snelgrove
    Patrick Newell
    Patrick Newell
    • Bentley Bobster
    Donald Eccles
    Donald Eccles
    • The Reverend Duncan Nesbitt
    Matthew Ryan
    • Dudley's Friend
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    Walter Sparrow
    Walter Sparrow
    • Ethan Engel
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    • Director
      • Barry Levinson
    • Writers
      • Arthur Conan Doyle
      • Chris Columbus
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    9equipage

    Stands the test of time...

    I feel one of the true tests of a good movie is how it holds up over time. Can't believe it has been 18 years since I first viewed this little gem, and it was as good today as in 1985! Among other reasons, the Holmes and Watson characters were obviously cast for their youthful likeness to the characters in the old Basil Rathbone series of movies. Take a good look! This a wonderful penning of the proposed early days of the two and a very original concept. Probably only true Holmes officiandos will see some obvious references to the adult Rathbone character, and these add to the cleverness of this version. Make certain to stay 'til the end of the credits; Sherlock Holmes fans will receive an ingenious clue to the his "future".
    7TheLittleSongbird

    Holmes and Watson in their youth

    Am a huge fan of Sherlock Holmes and get a lot of enjoyment out of Arthur Conan Doyle's stories. Also love Basil Rathbone's and especially Jeremy Brett's interpretations to death. So would naturally see any Sherlock Holmes adaptation that comes my way, regardless of its reception.

    Moreover, interest in seeing early films based on Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories and wanting to see as many adaptations of any Sherlock Holmes stories as possible sparked my interest in seeing 'Young Sherlock Holmes'. Thought that with such great talent on board in front of and behind the camera that it couldn't fail.

    Fail 'Young Sherlock Holmes' does not. It is not perfect and is not quite great, but it is hugely entertaining and hard to dislike. It is not one of the all-time Holmes adaptations or one of the worst (nothing's worse than Peter Cook's/Dudley Moore's 'The Hound of the Baskervilles'), and of the Sherlock Holmes films seen recently it is along with 'The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes' the best. It may not be Conan Doyle, and how Holmes and Watson meet here is contradictory to 'A Study in Scarlet', but as a standalone it delivers on the entertainment value.

    'Young Sherlock Holmes' can get pretty silly at times, with the last act being over-the-top nonsense and in a way that is not in keeping with the rest of the story, which took a fun and light-hearted approach often but never to extremes. There are times where it does feel like it was trying to do too much.

    Also found a few cast members to be on the hammy side, Freddie Jones goes overboard a bit.

    Otherwise there is not an awful lot to dislike about 'Young Sherlock Holmes'. It still holds up as a great looking film, it is beautifully and atmospherically shot but the stars are the set design for Baker Street and the imaginative special effects (the knight is a standout). The direction is efficient and at ease with the material on the most part.

    Bruce Broughton's music score is like a character of its own and adds so much character to the film. The writing is playful and witty while also intelligent and thought-provoking. The story throughout goes at a lively pace and is so much fun to watch, with a mystery that intrigues hugely. There are even some wonderfully strange moments, Watson's hallucination is one of the most bizarre on film but it's great fun to watch and imaginatively handled.

    Nicholas Rowe displays much charisma as Holmes, with even in youth shades of the detective's iconic character traits. Alan Cox is a loyal and amusing Watson and the chemistry between them is charming. Sophie Ward exudes charm and class and Anthony Higgins has a whale of a time.

    In summary, not great or perfect but a huge amount of fun. 7/10 Bethany Cox
    Coxer99

    Young Sherlock Holmes

    Intriguing story, not based on a Doyle idea, about the meeting of Sherlock Holmes and his good friend Watson. Even as youngsters, they unravel mysteries together and find themselves in constant mayhem and peril. Rowe is an outstanding young Sherlock, while Cox is an exceptional younger Watson. Barry Levinson directed this fun look at the master detective in his younger years.
    ctyankee1

    Wonderful Movie

    I love this movie. The young actor to me was a young Sherlock Holmes. Nicholas Rowe as Sherlock.He is 6 ft 4 inches and is left handed when sword fighting. He was human, respectful, humble, polite, wise and treated Watson like a brother not like the combative relationship in Sherlock Holmes 2009 and 2010.

    This story took place at a school for boys called Brompton Academy.

    A dart with hallucinogenic drug made victims see scary things when hit by this dart.Things come alive that attack the victim. A cooked chicken, statues of bats or bird and more. One victim jumps out a window one runs out of church and gets killed by a stage coach and one stabs himself thinking creatures are in his shirt harming him. The special affects in it were amazing. Holmes could not attend the funeral of one of the victims because of his expulsion from Brompton Academy.

    Watson's experience after being shot with the drug was funny. A grave opened up at the cemetery that had all kinds of pastries on shelves. The pastries started jumping off the shelf,on to the ground & Watson talking to each other. They were all different sizes and shapes with big eyes and some pastries started shoving other pastries in to Watson mouth cherry cream and all. Really humorous.

    Earlier in the movie Watson finds a dart blowpipe which belongs to an Egyptian cult worshiping Osiris god of the underworld. This cult sacrifices live people in a hot substance. Sherlock finds this temple and stops the sacrifice and escapes. Later he realizes there is a cult operating in this city which is causing the deaths of men that knew each other.

    Sherlock was in love in this movie which at the end it said the writers did not know what young Sherlock would have been like and that they just respectably put some things in.

    This film was very violent and tense. It is about 145 minutes long.

    It was like one of the Indiana Jones movies with the cult members running for their life and the building falling down.

    This is one movie that did not disappoint me but scared the pastry out of me.
    7Lejink

    Holmes In A Harry!

    Three teenagers, two boys and a girl, based at a fusty old English boarding school in the dead of winter, solve mysteries and fight supernatural forces. The leader of the three has a keen intelligence as well as a native ingenuity to get him and his pals out of the tightest of tight spots and even has a snotty rival in class, determined to bring him down. Their real protagonist though is one of the school masters while elsewhere there's a proliferation of eccentric older characters who interact with the youngsters. Sound familiar...?

    But Holy Hogwarts, this isn't the long-lost prequel to the Harry Potter blockbuster series, or maybe it is...

    What it is instead, is an imagined first adventure of the young Holmes and Watson, who we see meeting as schoolmates at Brompton Public School where Holmes's credentials as a young smart-aleck and Watson as his plodding but not always dumb sidekick are established.almost immediately. Add in the pretty young female niece of an eccentric old science teacher who sidelines by creating flying contraptions, mix in some murders caused by a hallucinogenic drug administered by the blow-dart of a cloaked female figure, top off with a ritualistic sect determined to sacrifice the young girl and you have an enjoyable and exciting boys-own family-entertainment sumptuously created by Spielberg's Amblin Productions, as written by Christopher Columbus and directed by Barry Levinson.

    Cleverly inserting most of the familiar tropes we associate with the adult Holmes and Watson, including sayings, clothing and mannerisms, it's a rollicking ride from start to finish notably including an early example of the potential of Pixar productions in one of the animated sequences. There are cinematic nods to great uncle Steven with scenes highly reminiscent of "E. T" and "Raiders Of The Lost Ark".

    Nicely acted by the no-doubt carefully cast youngsters, with good adult support too, backed by a suitably florid John Williams orchestral soundtrack, the whole film is easy on the eye and ear. I remember watching it on first release and being disappointed, then as now, that it wasn't successful enough at the box-office to generate the obviously anticipated and indeed epilogued sequel.

    All it seems that was missing from the winning formula was a little magic...

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    • Trivia
      (At around twenty-three minutes in) This is the first theatrical movie to have a completely CGI (computer-generated image) character: the knight emerging from the stained glass window to attack the priest. Industrial Light & Magic animated the scene, overseen by John Lasseter in a very early movie credit for Pixar.
    • Goofs
      (at around 15 mins) Just before the flying machine crashes into the tree on its first flight, cables that the machine is hanging from are visible.
    • Quotes

      Sherlock Holmes: A great detective relies on perception, intelligence, and imagination.

      Lestrade: [amused] Where'd you get that rubbish from?

      Sherlock Holmes: It's framed on the wall behind you.

    • Crazy credits
      Throughout the end credits, the action follows a horsedrawn sleigh en route to an unknown destination. In last shot, the audience becomes privy to the surprise identity of the passenger, a key figure in Sherlockiana.
    • Connections
      Featured in At the Movies: Young Sherlock Holmes/Fool for Love/Rocky IV/The Official Story (1985)

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    • Release date
      • March 26, 1986 (France)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Official site
      • Amblin Entertainment (United States)
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • El secreto de la pirámide
    • Filming locations
      • Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
    • Production companies
      • Paramount Pictures
      • Amblin Entertainment
      • Industrial Light & Magic (ILM)
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    • Budget
      • $18,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $19,739,575
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $2,538,234
      • Dec 8, 1985
    • Gross worldwide
      • $19,739,575
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 49m(109 min)
    • Color
      • Color
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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