Hands of a Murderer (1990)
Can Sherlock Holmes resist the ultimate challenge?
Sherlock Holmes must track down his nemesis, Professor Moriarty, after the villain kidnaps Holmes' brother, Mycroft. The evil doctor is forcing his captive to decode highly classified military documents.
- Date of release
- 1990-05-16
- TMDB
- 6.7 / 10 (13)
- Runtime
- 1h 30m
- Genres
- Adventure, Action, Thriller, Mystery, TV Movie
- Director
- Stuart Orme
Casting
- Edward Woodward — Sherlock Holmes
- John Hillerman — Dr. John Watson
- Anthony Andrews — Prof. James Moriarty
- Kim Thomson — Sophie DeVere
- Peter Jeffrey — Mycroft Holmes
- Warren Clarke — Col. Gould
- Terence Lodge — Inspector Lestrade
- Christopher Fairbank — Jeremy Stubb
- Harry Audley — Richard Farrington
- David Sibley — Finch
- John Tordoff — Berton
- Nickolas Grace — Oberstein
Interesting facts
Hands of a Murderer is a 1990 British made-for-television mystery film directed by Stuart Orme, starring Edward Woodward as Sherlock Holmes and John Hillerman as Dr. John H. Watson.
Production
Filmed in England in association with Yorkshire Television, the film premiered on CBS on 16 May 1990.
The screenplay was by Charles Edward Pogue who had also written the earlier Ian Richardson Sherlock Holmes films, The Sign of Four and The Hound of the Baskervilles and was initially intended to be a part of that series of films.
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