The Return of the World’s Greatest Detective

Year: 1976

Runtime: 74 mins

Language: English

Director: Dean Hargrove

CrimeMysteryComedy

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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