Without a Clue
The flip side of Sherlock Holmes
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5/5/1988Runtime
107 minsOverview
Sherlock Holmes is as dashing as ever, but with a little secret: Dr. Watson is the brains behind the operation. When Reginald Kincaid, the actor he has hired to play Holmes becomes insufferable, Watson fires him and tries to go out on his own, but finds that he has done too good a job building Holmes up in the public's mind.
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EnglishBudget
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$8,539,181Homepage
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A witty inversion of the Sherlock Holmes mythos where Watson is the actual detective forced to work behind the scenes with a vain, drunken actor playing his creation. It's a clever comedy about the gap between public image and private truth, peppered with period charm and the friction between two men bound by an increasingly awkward arrangement.
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Michael Caine
Sherlock Holmes
Ben Kingsley
Dr. John Watson
Jeffrey Jones
Inspector Lestrade
Lysette Anthony
Impostor Leslie Giles
Nigel Davenport
Lord Smithwick
Peter Cook
Greenhough
Gregor Fisher
Bobby at Warehouse
Paul Freeman
Prof. James Moriarty
George Sweeney
John Clay
John Tordoff
Mr. Andrews
Alexandra Spencer
Mrs. Andrews
Matthew Sim
Real Lesley
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