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Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady (1991)

Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady poster
Directed by
Peter Sasdy
Genre
Sherlock Holmes television program
Country
United Kingdom, France, Italy, Luxembourg
Runtime
3h 07m
Rated
PG
Rating
5.4 of 10 from 16 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

An older Sherlock Holmes is coaxed out of retirement to investigate a plot involving the inventor of the movie projector and a famous actress from the stage. He travels to Europe to prevent a crime and protect a secret invention.

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What happens

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. Harry Alan Towers was executive producer and Bob Shayne was the writer on both. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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