Corrected entry: At the end of the movie, the script on the screen says that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle did not specify when Holmes and Watson met. That is not true. They met for the first time in "A Study in Scarlet."
Young Sherlock Holmes (1985)
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Directed by: Barry Levinson
Starring: Anthony Higgins, Sophie Ward, Alan Cox, Nicholas Rowe
Revealing mistake: There are several instances where you can see that the bandages used to wrap up the girls are pre-assembled. When the first girl is "waxed" you can see there are no joins between the bandages, they are all in one piece - almost like a body stocking. You can also see this later with Elizabeth, and it becomes more significant because you see the bandages being wrapped around her head as normal, and then when Watson pulls them off, they come away in one piece like a balaclava, which of course shouldn't happen.
Sherlock Holmes: The game is afoot!
Trivia: The story in the film is not based on any Sherlock Holmes story.
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Correction: The script at the end was added to keep with the theme of the movie. The movie was based on the premise of what would have happened if Holmes and Watson meet each other when they were teenagers. The script just helps show that this is not an "official" Arthur Conan Doyle story.
Bruce Minnick