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They Might Be Giants (1971)
Director: Anthony Harvey
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
A delightfully quirky movie about a New York lawyer (Scott) who imagines he is Sherlock Holmes, adopting the deerstalking garb and savouring four-pipe problems. The pressures of modern life and the death of his wife have, of course, turned him into a textbook case of paranoid delusion. His somewhat sinister brother sends him to a shrink, Dr Mildred Watson (Woodward), whose Freudian analysis of him is rather overshadowed by his Holmesian analysis of her. Watson's other case is a man who refuses to speak - he thinks he's silent screen star Valentino. Meanwhile, Scott refuses to get better; indeed, he lures everyone into his fantasy, gathering a bunch of Bleeker Street Irregulars who go into snowbound Central Park for a final showdown with the Napoleon of crime, Moriarty. Produced by Paul Newman, it was a box-office disaster (shorn of ten minutes on its original release) that now seems years ahead of its time.Author: ATu
Cast & crew
Director: Anthony Harvey
Producer: Paul Newman, John Foreman
Cast: Joanne Woodward, George C Scott, Jack Gilford, Lester Rawlins, Rue McClanahan, Ron Weyand, Kitty Winn, Sudie Bond, M Emmet Walsh, F Murray Abraham full cast
Genre(s): Comedy
Duration: 98 mins
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