Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady and its sequel, Incident at Victoria Falls (1992), are a pair of TV films made in 1991 under the banner Sherlock Holmes the Golden Years.[1] Harry Alan Towers was executive producer and Bob Shayne was the writer on both.
Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady | |
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Directed by | Peter Sasdy |
Screenplay by | Bob Shayne H.R.F. Keating |
Based on | Characters by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
Produced by | Frank Agrama Riccardo Coccia Daniele Lorenzano Mirjana Mijojlic Alessandro Tasca Harry Alan Towers |
Starring | Christopher Lee Patrick Macnee Morgan Fairchild John Bennett Engelbert Humperdinck |
Cinematography | Brian West |
Edited by | Marcus Manton |
Music by | Detto Mariano |
Production companies | Harmony Gold Finance Luxembourg S.A. (as Harmony Gold), Banquet et Caisse D'Epargne de l'etat, Banque Paribas Luxembourg, Silvio Berlusconi Communications |
Release dates | December 6, 1991 (Canada) |
Running time | 187 minutes |
Language | English |
Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson are elderly gentlemen in 1910 Vienna. Both are involved independently with foiling Balkan terrorists. They reunite by chance with “The Woman”: actress Irene Adler. They save Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria from an assassination at the opera house and thus delay the onset of World War I.
The film also featured a number of historical characters, including Eliot Ness and Sigmund Freud.
It was initially announced that there would be an eight-hour miniseries entitled The Golden Years of Sherlock Holmes.[1] The project series of eight one-hour episodes soon morphed into two three-hour films.[1]
It was shot back to back with Incident at Victoria Falls.[1]
Filming locations were in Austria, London and Luxembourg.
Both were released in the next two years and there were drastically edited versions released by Vestron Videos.[1] The full versions are now available on DVD.
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