The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
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- In Herbert Ross: Films of the mid-1970s
…many critics, Ross’s next film, The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976), was a near-perfect realization of Nicholas Meyer’s adaptation of his own best-selling novel. Nicol Williamson starred as cocaine-addicted detective Sherlock Holmes, who seeks help from psychiatrist Sigmund Freud (Alan Arkin); Robert Duvall played Holmes’s able assistant
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- In Herbert Ross: Films of the mid-1970s
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- Arkin
- In Alan Arkin
… (1974), portrayed Sigmund Freud in The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976), and appeared opposite Peter Falk in Arthur Hiller’s comedy The In-Laws (1979).
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- In Alan Arkin
- Grey
- In Joel Grey
…also appeared in Herbert Ross’s The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976). He starred on Broadway in The Grand Tour (1979), which, though well reviewed, ran only 61 performances, and he portrayed a Korean martial-arts master in the comic action film Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins (1985), a performance that brought him a…
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- In Joel Grey
- Redgrave
- In Vanessa Redgrave: Oscar contender: roles from the 1960s and ’70s
…the Orient Express (1974) and The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976), and she won an Oscar for best supporting actress for her performance as an anti-Nazi crusader in Julia (1977).
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- In Vanessa Redgrave: Oscar contender: roles from the 1960s and ’70s