| Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady | |
|---|---|
| Based on | Characters bySir 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 (1991-12-06) |
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 bannerSherlock Holmes the Golden Years.[1]Harry Alan Towers was executive producer and Bob Shayne was the writer on both.
Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson are elderly gentlemen in 1910Vienna. Both are involved independently with foiling Balkan terrorists. They reunite by chance with “The Woman”: actressIrene Adler. They save EmperorFranz Joseph I of Austria from an assassination at the opera house and thus delay the onset ofWorld War I.
The film also featured a number of historical characters, includingEliot Ness andSigmund Freud.
It was initially announced that there would be an eight-hourminiseries entitledThe 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 withIncident 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 byVestron Videos.[1] The full versions are now available on DVD.