<P> More serious, non-canonical films were A Study in Terror (with John Neville and Donald Houston) and Murder by Decree (with Christopher Plummer and James Mason), both of which involved Holmes and Watson investigating the murders by the Whitechapel serial killer Jack the Ripper, and Young Sherlock Holmes (1985) with Nicholas Rowe as Holmes and Alan Cox as Watson playing the duo as schoolboys . </P> <P> The 1974 novel The Seven - Per - Cent Solution, a "lost manuscript" of a Holmes adventure, was also made into a film in 1976 starring Nicol Williamson as Holmes and Robert Duvall as Watson . </P> <P> The 1988 film Without a Clue was a comedic twist on the familiar Holmes legend . Dr. John Watson (Ben Kingsley) is a genius crime fighter and successful author . Fans of his novels clamor to see the real Sherlock Holmes, and Watson realizes that his audience simply would not accept the fact that Holmes was a fabrication and to reveal himself as the creator and brains behind him would be tantamount to literary suicide . To solve his dilemmas, Watson hires Reginald Kincaid (Michael Caine), an alcoholic, womanizing, ne'er - do - well actor to impersonate Holmes . </P> <P> The twenty - eighth film in the VeggieTales series is entitled Sheerluck Holmes and the Golden Ruler, and features Larry the Cucumber as Holmes and Bob the Tomato as Watson . </P>

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