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Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady

UK/France/Italy/Belgium/Luxembourg/USA 1991
produced by
Frank Agrama, Alessandro Tasca, Daniele Lorenzano, Harry Alan Towers (executive) for Harmony Gold, Bank Paribas Luxembourg, Banquet et Caisse D'Epargne de l'Etat, Silvio Berlusconi Communications
directed by Peter Sasdy
starring Christopher Lee, Patrick Macnee, Morgan Fairchild, John Bennett, Engelbert Humperdinck, Tom Lahm, Ronald Hines, Nicholas Gecks, Jenny Quayle, Michael Siberry, Dominic Jephcott, Frank Middlemass, Charlotte Attenborough, James Bree, John Gower, Mia Nardi, Robert Rietty, Kalman Glass, Paul Humpoletz, Tom Chadbon, Kevin Quarmby, Terence Beesley, Patrick Monckton, Leon Lissek, Cyril Shaps, Guy Scantlebury, Jerome Willis, Margaret John, Michael McStay, Amy L. Taylor, Jeremy Beckman, Antony Marsh, Sandor Elès, Mark Powley, Patrick Duggan, Gertan Klauber, Julia Finlay, Jovica Nikolic, Marcel Medernach, Nick Gray, Peter Bamber, Peta Bartlett, Phillip Dogham, Diane Horsey, Bruce Ogston, Gareth Roberts, Debra Skeen
screenplay by H.R.F. Keating, Bob Shayne, based on characters created by Arthur Conan Doyle, music by Detto Mariano

Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock Holmes (Christopher Lee), Irene Adler, Sigmund Freud, Elliott Ness

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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1910: After a newly developed detonating device is stolen from the British embassy in Vienna, Austria-Hungary, Sherlock Holmes (Christopher Lee) and Dr Watson (Patrick Macnee) go there and soon embark on a scavenger hunt that starts at the Viennese opera, where Homes meets his old foe/love interest Irene Adler (Morgan Fairchild) once more, and takes him to a castle in the Viennese neighbourhood and finally to Hungary, trips on which Watson is sometimes substituted by Sigmund Freud (John Bennett) - really.

In Budapest, Holmes is able to track down the construction plans for the detonator, which quite a number of foreign spies want to get their hands on, but which Holmes burns in the name of world peace, but the prototype of the detonator itself remains missing.

Eventually, Holmes tracks the prototype back to Vienna, to a group of Bosnian terrorists who plan to use it in an assassination, but they kidnap Irene Adler to keep Holmes off their back, and on top of that Holmes has no idea whom they are planning to kill.

Of course, Holmes and Watson manage to save Irene Adler just in time, find out the Bosnians want to kill none other but Austrian-Hungarian emperor Franz Joseph (Cyril Chaps) in the opera during a performance of Die Fledermaus, and can prevent what could have caused the first World War - which after all was still another four years away.

Tom Lahm plays American agent Elliott Ness (yes, the Elliott Ness), but he is irrelevant to the plot.

 

An attempt to show an older Sherlock Holmes entangled in international affairs that stick to actual facts (to a point of course) - now this at least sounds fun. Unfortunately, the film that results from the idea isn't all that entertaining: At two hours its overlong, its direction is too dry and stagey to keep things flowing, many historical events and characters are thrown into the story without rhyme or reason, just for a bit of name-dropping, and the whole film seems to be overpopulated with characters but almost devoid of suspects. And while the most entertaining thing about Sherlock Holmes-stories usually is seeing him coming to his conclusions by making the most likely (but entirely logical) deductions, here he pulls his conclusions just out of thin air. As for Christopher Lee as Holmes: He sure has the presence to do so, but often loses himself when it comes to romantic scenes, and he also lacks the detective'S typical arrogance (though that might be the script's fault).

In all, a Sherlock Holmes-film we could have done without.

 

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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