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Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady

Directed by

Peter Sasdy

Screenplay by

Bob Shayne
H.R.F. Keating

Based on

Characters
bySir 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 date

  • December 6, 1991 (1991-12-06) (Canada)

Running time

187 minutes

Language

English

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

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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

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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

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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]
  1. ^ a b c d e Alan Barnes (2002). Sherlock Holmes on Screen. Reynolds & Hearn Ltd. p. 149. ISBN 1-903111-04-8.
[edit]
Screen adaptations of Sherlock Holmes

Theatrical films

Silent

  • Adventures of Sherlock Holmes; or, Held for Ransom (1905)
  • Sherlock Holmes in the Great Murder Mystery (1908)
  • Arsène Lupin contra Sherlock Holmes (1910)
  • Éclair film series (1912–1913)
  • Der Hund von Baskerville (1914)
  • Detektiv Braun (1914)
  • A Study in Scarlet (1914 British film)
  • A Study in Scarlet (1914 US film)
  • The Valley of Fear (1916)
  • Sherlock Holmes (1916)
  • Sherlock Holmes (1922)
  • The Hound of the Baskervilles (1929)

    • Stoll series

  • The Devil's Foot (1921)
  • The Man with the Twisted Lip (1921)
  • The Hound of the Baskervilles (1921)
  • The Sign of Four (1923)

    • Wontner series

  • The Missing Rembrandt (1932)
  • The Sign of Four (1932)
  • The Triumph of Sherlock Holmes (1935)
  • Silver Blaze (1937)

    • Rathbone–Bruce
    series

  • The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939)
  • Voice of Terror (1942)
  • Secret Weapon (1942)
  • Sherlock Holmes in Washington (1943)
  • Sherlock Holmes Faces Death (1943)
  • The Spider Woman (1943)
  • The Scarlet Claw (1944)
  • The Pearl of Death (1944)
  • The House of Fear (1945)
  • The Woman in Green (1945)
  • Pursuit to Algiers (1945)
  • Terror by Night (1946)
  • Dressed to Kill (1946)

    • Downey series

  • A Game of Shadows (2011)

    • Other films

  • The Limejuice Mystery (1930)
  • The Speckled Band (1931)
  • Lelíček ve službách Sherlocka Holmese (1932)
  • The Hound of the Baskervilles (1932)
  • Sherlock Holmes (1932)
  • A Study in Scarlet (1933)
  • The Hound of the Baskervilles (1937)
  • The Grey Lady (1937)
  • The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes (1937)
  • Deduce, You Say! (1956)
  • The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959)
  • The Deadly Necklace (1962)
  • A Study in Terror (1965)
  • The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970)
  • They Might Be Giants (1971)
  • The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother (1975)
  • The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976)
  • The Hound of the Baskervilles (1978)
  • Murder by Decree (1979)
  • The Case of Marcel Duchamp (1984)
  • Young Sherlock Holmes (1985)
  • The Great Mouse Detective (1986)
  • Without a Clue (1988)
  • Zero Effect (1998)
  • A Samba for Sherlock (2001)
  • Case Closed: The Phantom of Baker Street (2002)
  • Holmes & Watson. Madrid Days (2012)
  • Mr. Holmes (2015)
  • The Empire of Corpses (2015)
  • Sherlock Gnomes (2018)
  • Holmes & Watson (2018)
  • Sherlock Holmes and the Great Escape (2019)

    • Television/
    streaming/
    direct-to-video

    Films

    Ian Richardson

  • The Hound of the Baskervilles (1983)

    • Peter O'Toole
    (animated)

    • Sherlock Holmes and a Study in Scarlet (1983)
  • Sherlock Holmes and the Baskerville Curse (1983)
  • Sherlock Holmes and the Sign of Four (1983)
  • Sherlock Holmes and the Valley of Fear (1983)

    • Vasily Livanov
    series

  • The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson (1980)
  • The Hound of the Baskervilles (1981)
  • The Treasures of Agra (1983)
  • The Twentieth Century Approaches (1986)

    • Christopher Lee

  • Incident at Victoria Falls (1992)

    • Matt Frewer

  • The Sign of Four (2001)
  • The Royal Scandal (2001)
  • The Case of the Whitechapel Vampire (2002)

    • Ian Hart (as Watson)

  • The Case of the Silk Stocking (2004)

    • Other films

  • The Man Who Disappeared (1951)
  • The Hound of the Baskervilles (1972)
  • The Longing of Sherlock Holmes (1972)
  • Doctor Watson and the Darkwater Hall Mystery (1974)
  • The Return of the World's Greatest Detective (1976)
  • Sherlock Holmes in New York (1976)
  • Silver Blaze (1977)
  • The Strange Case of the End of Civilization as We Know It (1977)
  • The Hound of the Baskervilles (1982)
  • The Masks of Death (1984)
  • The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1987)
  • Hands of a Murderer (1990)
  • The Crucifer of Blood (1991)
  • 1994 Baker Street: Sherlock Holmes Returns (1993)
  • The Hound of London (1993)
  • Sherlock: Case of Evil (2002)
  • Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars (2007)
  • Sherlock Holmes (2010)
  • Tom and Jerry Meet Sherlock Holmes (2010)

    • Television series

  • Sherlock Holmes (1954)
  • Sherlock Holmes (1965–1968)
  • Sherlock Holmes (1967–1968)
  • Sherlock Holmes (1968)
  • Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson (1979–1980)
  • Young Sherlock: The Mystery of the Manor House (1982)
  • The Baker Street Boys (1983)
  • Sherlock Hound (1984–1985)
  • Sherlock Holmes (1984–1994)
  • The Adventures of Shirley Holmes (1997–2000)
  • Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century (1999–2001)
  • Sherlock (2010–2017)
  • Tantei Opera Milky Holmes (2010–2016)
  • Aria the Scarlet Ammo (2011)
  • Elementary (2012–2019)
  • Sherlock Holmes (2013)
  • Sherlock Holmes (2014–2015)
  • Miss Sherlock (2018)
  • Sherlock: Untold Stories (2019)
  • Case File nº221: Kabukicho (2019–2020)
  • Moriarty the Patriot (2020–2021)
  • Sherlock in Russia (2020)
  • The Irregulars (2021)
  • Mademoiselle Holmes (2024)
  • Sherlock & Daughter (2025; upcoming)
  • Watson (2025; upcoming)
  • Young Sherlock (2025; upcoming)

    • Actors by role

  • Dr. Watson
  • Inspector Lestrade
  • Mycroft Holmes
  • Mrs. Hudson
  • Professor Moriarty

  • Victim Five (1964)
  • Coast of Skeletons (1965)
  • Sandy the Seal (1965)
  • Mozambique (1965)
  • 24 Hours to Kill (1965)
  • The Face of Fu Manchu (1965)
  • Ten Little Indians (1965)
  • Our Man in Marrakesh (1966)
  • Circus of Fear (1966)
  • The Brides of Fu Manchu (1966)
  • The Million Eyes of Sumuru (1967)
  • The Vengeance of Fu Manchu (1967)
  • Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon (1967)
  • Five Golden Dragons (1967)
  • The House of 1,000 Dolls (1967)
  • Eve (1968)
  • The Blood of Fu Manchu (1968)
  • 99 Women (1969)
  • The Girl from Rio (1969)
  • Marquis de Sade: Justine (1969)
  • The Castle of Fu Manchu (1969)
  • Venus in Furs (1969)
  • Eugenie… The Story of Her Journey into Perversion (1970)
  • The Bloody Judge (1970)
  • Count Dracula (1970)
  • Dorian Gray (1970)
  • Black Beauty (1971)
  • Treasure Island (1972)
  • The Call of the Wild (1972)
  • White Fang (1973)
  • And Then There Were None (1974)
  • Blue Belle (1976)
  • H. G. Wells' The Shape of Things to Come (1979)
  • King Solomon's Treasure (1979)
  • Klondike Fever (1980)
  • Black Venus (1983)
  • Fanny Hill (1983)
  • Lady Libertine (1984)
  • Christina (1984)
  • Black Arrow (1985)
  • Lightning, the White Stallion (1986)
  • Skeleton Coast (1987)
  • Gor (1987)
  • Platoon Leader (1988)
  • Howling IV: The Original Nightmare (1988)
  • Outlaw of Gor (1988)
  • Edge of Sanity (1989)
  • American Ninja 3: Blood Hunt (1989)
  • River of Death (1989)
  • Ten Little Indians (1989)
  • The Phantom of the Opera (1989)
  • Buried Alive (1990)
  • Oddball Hall (1990)
  • Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady (1991)
  • Incident at Victoria Falls (1992)
  • The Lost World (1992)
  • Return to the Lost World (1992)
  • Dance Macabre (1992)
  • Night Terrors (1993)
  • The Mangler (1995)
  • Bullet to Beijing (1995)
  • Cry, the Beloved Country (1995)
  • Midnight in Saint Petersburg (1996)
  • Owd Bob (1998)
  • Treasure Island (1999)
  • Death, Deceit and Destiny Aboard the Orient Express (2000)
  • Sumuru (2003)
  • Pact with the Devil (2004)

    • Films directed by Peter Sasdy

  • Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970)
  • Countess Dracula (1971)
  • Hands of the Ripper (1971)
  • Doomwatch (1972)
  • Nothing but the Night (1973)
  • I Don't Want to Be Born (1975)
  • Welcome to Blood City (1977)
  • The Lonely Lady (1983)
  • Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady (1991)


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