Visually Beautiful Film

I love this film - the sets are beautiful. Holmes's rooms are depicted exactly as I imagined them to be and so are Watson's. The scenes in and around Vienna are beautifully captured - each frame is like a painting. It has been most lovingly made with tremendous attention to detail. A top rate cast - with one exception (wish Duvall had stayed home) but Nicol Williamson's Holmes was excellent, and Olivier's Moriarty, Redgrave's Lola Deveraux, Arkin's Freud, Charles Grey's Mycroft and Jeremy Kemp's Baron were all brilliantly realised. Along with 'The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes' this has to be one of the best parodies of Doyle's famous detective. The story is clever too, with rather a nice twist at the end regarding Holmes's disappearance.