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Released
1985 · FILM

Young Sherlock Holmes

A teenage Sherlock Holmes teams up with new friend John Watson to expose an ancient Egyptian cult plotting murders, racing against time to stop the deadly conspiracy before their school—and the nation—fall victim.

“Before a lifetime of adventure, they lived the adventure of a lifetime.”

Directed by
Barry Levinson
Written by
Arthur Conan Doyle, Chris Columbus
Runtime
109 min
AdventureFantasyMystery

Synopsis

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson first meet as boys at an English boarding school. Even at a young age, Holmes demonstrates a remarkable deductive ability, often impressing his classmates with his insights. When the two uncover a plot by an Egyptian cult to murder a series of British businessmen, they take action to prevent the crimes.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 22

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Stu LinderShot by Stephen GoldblattScored by Bruce BroughtonDesigned by Norman Reynolds

Box Office

1985 · Box office

✅ Made its money back — grossed 3.5× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$63.7M

Budget$18.0M
Worldwide gross$63.7M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $19.7M — 31% of worldwide · International: $44.0M (69%)

Opening weekend: $2.5M — 13% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Peak 920 theaters

Also known as

  • Das Geheimnis des verborgenen Tempelsde
  • El secreto de la pirámidees
  • Le Secret de la pyramidefr
  • Piramide di paurait

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