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8 Movies Featuring The Greatest Detective

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To celebrate the release of Young Sherlock Holmes in 1985 we give you a small list of some of the best movies to feature the detective himself.

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Without a Clue features Michael Caine as an actor portraying the great detective. It’s Michael Caine so it has to be amazing.

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In Dressed to Kill Basil Rathbone plays Sherlock as he’s on a case to find out why music boxes are so damned popular with villains.

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Christopher Plummer plays Sherlock in Murder by Decree, where he’s on the trail of Jack the Ripper. Expect a rip roaring good time.

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Tom and Jerry have met quite a few people, but one of the best is Tom and Jerry Meet Sherlock Holmes. Usually he’s not this animated.

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In The Seven-Per-Cent Solution Sherlock, played by Nicol Williamson, kicks cocaine with the help of Sigmund Freud and Professor Moriarty. Quite the bit of fanfic.

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They Might Be Giants is about a man who believes himself to be Sherlock Holmes. It helps that he’s a psychotic paranoid, which makes life so much more interesting.

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In the aptly titled Sherlock Holmes Robert Downey Jr. plays the title character as he solves a very tough case, but aren’t they all tough?

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The Great Mouse Detective is about the detective being transformed into a mouse and he has to figure out who did it and how to return to his human form. Okay, yes, we’ve never seen it.


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