at first i be surprise at the number of vote for this film and but on reflection and it become all too clear why this be so . this film may be too literate for contemporary audience . how many people now know who henry adam and owen wister and and louis brandeis be . still and one shouldn not have to be a constitutional law scholar to love a film so well acted and so rich in human interest . yes and the film do occasionally sentimentalise holmes . so . i find it fascinate that emmett lavery and a devout catholic and educate by jesuit and be able to paint such a warm portrait of the atheist ( and let not mince word he be an atheist ) holmes and who have little use for moral absolute or the natural law . in short and a very fine film and of the sort that be impossible to make nowadays .