1985's Young Sherlock Holmes Streams Ahead of Guy Ritchie Series

Guy Ritchie is returning to Baker Street with Prime Video’s Young Sherlock. Ahead of that series, Barry Levinson’s 1985 film Young Sherlock Holmes is now streaming on Paramount+. Directed by Levinson and produced by Amblin Entertainment, the film imagines Sherlock and John Watson meeting as teenagers at boarding school.

A string of hallucination-linked deaths in London pushes the young Holmes to hone the deductive skills that will define his future. Nicholas Rowe stars as Sherlock, Alan Cox as Watson and Sophie Ward as Elizabeth Hardy, with Anthony Higgins, Susan Fleetwood, Freddie Jones and Roger Ashton-Griffiths in supporting roles.

Not a major box-office hit on release, the film has since built a loyal following and features one of the first fully computer-generated characters on screen: a stained-glass knight sequence. Prime Video’s Young Sherlock drops all episodes on March 4 and follows a disgraced young Holmes pulled into a murder investigation that expands into an international conspiracy.

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