Genius and snout

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Movie
German title Genius and snout
Original title Without a clue
Country of production United Kingdom
original language English
Publishing year 1988
length 107 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Thom Eberhardt
script Larry Drawther , Garry Murphy
production Marc Stirdivant
music Henry Mancini
camera Alan Hume
cut Peter Tanner
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Genie und Schnauze is a British comedy film from 1988, based on the famous crime films about the English master detective Sherlock Holmes and his companion Dr. Watson parodies.

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Dr. John Watson is a gifted criminalist who has a cool mind to solve London's most difficult criminal cases. In order to be able to be appointed to a respected medical college, he invents the character of the ingenious detective Sherlock Holmes and hires the shabby actor Reginald Kincaid to fill it out. While Watson solves the cases, "Holmes" enjoys the fame of the detective and zealously indulges in his passions - women, alcohol and gambling. In the course of a newly closed case, Watson noticed that neither the press, the police, nor Sherlock Holmes' fans were paying attention to him and taking him seriously. Angry about the public's apparently blind admiration for Sherlock Holmes, a fictional character that Watson invented, he fires Kincaid in order to be able to legally claim recognition for the resolved cases for himself in the future.

One day, plates for five pound notes are stolen from the Bank of England . With the UK economy in jeopardy, Watson offers its services. But the government only wants to entrust this delicate case to the "master detective" Sherlock Holmes personally and ignores all objections of the new "Crime Doctor", as Watson calls himself, to being able to solve the case on his own. Watson realizes that without the leading figure of Sherlock Holmes, the case would never be entrusted to him. Watson is feverishly looking for Kincaid, who is completely broke and drunk in a bar. Watson apologizes and just in time manages to let Kincaid as Sherlock Holmes take over the case of the missing printing plates.

Watson quickly realizes that his arch rival, the ingenious criminal king Professor Moriarty , is behind the act. In a collision in the harbor, Moriarty allegedly shoots Watson. For the first time, Holmes finds himself in the dire straits of solving a real crime and realizes that without the analysis of the genius Watson, Sherlock Holmes is only one role. But Holmes sets out to solve the crime alone - and Moriarty is the only one who knows he's just an actor.

Reviews

  • Lexicon of international films : The most amusing continuation of the Sherlock Holmes legend in a brilliant cast that offers the best entertainment.

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