Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady
| Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady | |
|---|---|
| Based on | Characters by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
| Screenplay by | Bob Shayne H.R.F. Keating |
| Directed by | Peter Sasdy |
| Starring | Christopher Lee Patrick Macnee Morgan Fairchild John Bennett Engelbert Humperdinck |
| Music by | Detto Mariano |
| Original language | English |
| Production | |
| Producers | Frank Agrama Riccardo Coccia Daniele Lorenzano Mirjana Mijojlic Alessandro Tasca Harry Alan Towers |
| Cinematography | Brian West |
| Editor | Marcus Manton |
| Running time | 187 minutes |
| 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 |
| Original release | |
| Release | 6 December 1991 |
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.
Plot
[edit]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.
Cast
[edit]- Christopher Lee as Sherlock Holmes
- Patrick Macnee as Dr. Watson
- Morgan Fairchild as Irene Adler
- John Bennett as Dr. Sigmund Freud
- Engelbert Humperdinck as Eberhardt Bohm
- Tom Lahm as Eliot Ness
- Jenny Quayle as Lady Violet Cholmondley
- Jerome Willis as Mycroft Holmes
- Margaret John as Mrs. Hudson
- Charlotte Attenborough as Margaret Froelich
Production
[edit]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]
Filming
[edit]It was shot back to back with Incident at Victoria Falls.[1]
Locations
[edit]Filming locations were in Austria, London and Luxembourg.
Home media
[edit]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.
References
[edit]External links
[edit]- 1991 television films
- 1991 films
- Films set in 1910
- Films set in Vienna
- Films shot in Austria
- Films shot in London
- Films shot in Luxembourg
- Sherlock Holmes films
- Films directed by Peter Sasdy
- Cultural depictions of Franz Joseph I of Austria
- 1990s English-language films
- Cultural depictions of Eliot Ness
- Cultural depictions of Sigmund Freud