The Royal Scandal

The Royal Scandal (2001)

Temptation May Be His Greatest Adversary

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes - the world's greatest detective - faces a most alluring adversary... Legendary opera star Irene Adler is threatening to destroy the King of Bohemia's reputation with proof of their illicit affair. The evidence? A photograph. Her ransom? The king's hand in marriage. But not only does investigating detective Sherlock Holmes already know Irene from the past, he also knows that the queen of manipulation would never resort to such a common crime. After uncovering her true ambitions, Holmes draws the cunning songstress into a well-matched game of cat and mouse

Date of release
2001-10-19
TMDB
5.9 / 10 (11)
Runtime
1h 24m
Genres
Crime, Thriller, Mystery, TV Movie
Director
Rodney Gibbons
Collection
Sherlock Holmes (Matt Frewer) Collection

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Based on: A Scandal in Bohemia and The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans

The Royal Scandal is a Sherlock Holmes film which is an amalgam of "A Scandal in Bohemia" and "The Bruce-Partington Plans". The film was produced in 2001 for Hallmark Channel as part of an ongoing series of Hallmark Sherlock Holmes films.

Production

The third of four Holmes adaptations starring Frewer as Holmes, was preceded by The Hound of the Baskervilles in 2000 and The Sign of Four in 2001, and followed by The Case of the Whitechapel Vampire (an original story) in 2002.

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