Episode 624: The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976)

The Projection Booth Podcast

The Projection Booth

Film Reviews, Film Interviews, Film History, Tv & Film

4.8 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2023

⏱️ 115 minutes

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Summary

We continue our month of discussions around the 1970s interpretations of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s consulting detective, Sherlock Holmes. On this episode we’re discussing The Seven-Per-Cent Solution from 1976. Directed by Herbert Ross and written by Nicholas Meyer -- and based on his first of many Sherlock Holmes books -- the film finds Sherlock Holmes (Nicol Williamson) in the grip of cocaine addiction while Dr. John Watson (Robert Duvall) plans to take his friend to Vienna to undergo therapy by Sigmund Freud (Alan Arkin).

David MacGregor and Aaron Peterson join Mike to discuss the film while Nicholas Meyer talks about his many Holmes novels.

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0:00.0	Hold your ears, folks.
0:06.8	It's showtime.
0:08.6	People pay good money to see this movie.
0:10.9	When they go out to a theater, they want cold sodas, hot popcorn, and no monsters in the projection booth.
0:17.3	Everyone pretend podcasting isn't boring.
0:20.2	Shut it off.
0:25.5	Turn it off.
0:26.6	Turn it off.
0:31.6	Hey! Shortly before the turn of the century, two of the great minds of all time met and began an adventure that history had yet to before.
0:56.0	Sherlock Holmes and Sigmund Freud.
0:59.0	Together they are covered with the test that to find brilliance
1:03.0	and threatens their very lives.
1:06.0	Universal presents the 7% solution,
1:09.0	Nicholas Meyer's best-selling mystery from the personal memoirs of Dr. John H. Watson.
1:13.6	First you must tell me how you guess the details of my life with such uncanny accuracy.
1:18.6	Kind of a guess. It is an appalling habit, destructive to the logical faculty.
1:21.6	This is wonderful.
1:23.6	Come on, this.
1:24.6	The 7% solution, revealing for the first time the vile and destructive habit that almost destroyed the world's greatest detective.
1:31.3	Watson!
1:32.3	The true identity of Sherlock Holmes' arch-nemesis Professor James Moriardy.
1:36.3	Look, you start with me.
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