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The Return of the World’s Greatest Detective (1976) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1976 · 74 mins · English
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- Directed by
- Dean Hargrove
- Starring
- Charles Macaulay, Woodrow Parfrey, Larry Hagman, Sid Haig, Jenny O'Hara, Ron Silver
After a motorcycle accident leaves a Los Angeles police officer with a head injury, he awakens convinced he is Sherlock Holmes. Partnering with the social worker assigned to his care, he sets out to investigate the murder of an embezzler, applying his imagined Holmesian deduction to the case.
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