The Crucifer of Blood (TV movie 1991)
The Crucifer of Blood is a British-American TV movie produced by Agamemnon Films, British Lion Film Corporation, Lynch Entertainment and Turner Pictures first released on 4 november 1991 (USA), starring Charlton Heston as Sherlock Holmes and Richard Johnson as Dr. Watson. 90 min.
The story is a mix of stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle :
- The story starts like in the original story of The Man with the Twisted Lip, where Mrs St-Clair asks Holmes to find his husband (his father in the movie).
- His father was involved in the Agra treasure theft (The Sign of Four).
- In the boat-chase on the Thames, Jonathan Small navigates on The Gloria Scott (rather than The Aurora).
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Sherlock Holmes
(Charlton Heston)
Dr. Watson
(Richard Johnson)
Irene St. Claire
(Susannah Harker)
Alistair Ross
(Edward Fox)
Neville St. Claire
(John Castle)
Inspector Lestrade
(Simon Callow)
Jonathan Small
(Clive Wood)
Birdy Johnson
(James Coyle)
Durga Dass
(Kaleem Janjua)
Wali Dad
(Stefan Kalipha)
Constable Hopkins
(Lloyd McGuire)
Tonga
(Kiran Shah)
Mordecai Smith
(Sidney Livingstone)
Leper
(Roly Lamas)
Tonga climbing the window looking as a crucifix
Sherlock Holmes disguised as opium dealer
Sherlock Holmes
(Charlton Heston)
Sherlock Holmes
(Charlton Heston)
Cast
- Sherlock Holmes : Charlton Heston
- Dr. John Watson : Richard Johnson
- Irene St. Claire : Susannah Harker
- Alistair Ross : Edward Fox
- Neville St. Claire : John Castle
- Inspector Lestrade : Simon Callow
- Jonathan Small : Clive Wood
- Birdy Johnson : James Coyle
- Durga Dass : Kaleem Janjua
- Wali Dad : Stefan Kalipha
- Constable Hopkins : Lloyd McGuire
- Tonga : Kiran Shah
- Mordecai Smith : Sidney Livingstone
- Leper : Roly Lamas
- Director : Fraser C. Heston
- Writers : Paul Giovanni (play), Fraser C. Heston
- Producer : Fraser Clarke Heston
- Executive Producer : Richard Horner, Peter Snell, Lynne Stuart
- Associate Producer : Ted Lloyd
- Original Music : Carl Davis
- Cinematography : Robin Vidgeon
- Film Editing : Eric Boyd-Perkins
- Casting : Rebecca Howard
- Production Design : Tony Woollard
- Art Direction : Malcolm Stone
- Set Decoration : Maggie Gray
- Hair Stylist : Linda Catlin
- Hair Styles Supervisor : Jan Dorman
- Makeup Artist : Nick Dudman, Suzanne Reynolds
- First Assistant Director : Terry Needham
- Second Assistant Director : Michael Stevenson
- Third Assistant Director : David Carrigan
- Stand-By Painter : Perry Bell
- Storyboard Artist : Roger W. Deer
- Construction Manager : Roy Evans
- Stand-By Prop : Mark Fruin
- Stand-By Carpenter : Arthur Holland
- Dressing Properties : Gary Ixer
- Stand-By Stagehand : Eamonn Redmond
- Production Buyer : Peter Rutherford
- Stand-By Prop : Terry Wells Jr.
- Property Master : Terry Wells
- Dressing Prop : Kevin Wheeler
- Property Storeman : Michael Wolfson
- Boom Operator : Gerald Bates
- Adr Mixer : Ron Bedrosian
- Supervising Sound Editor : Norval D. Crutcher
- Sound Editor : Samuel C. Crutcher, G. W. Davis
- Adr Mixer : John Dunkley
- Sound Re-Recording Mixer : Jay M. Harding, Don MacDougall, Douglas E. Turner
- Sound Editor : Joseph Holsen, Gilberto C. Nunes
- Sound Mixer : Brian Simmons
- Sound Trainee : Jeremy West
- Special Effects Supervisor : Neil Corbould
- Special Effects Trainee : Marcus Richardson
- Stunt Coordinator : Eddie Stacey
- Still Photographer : Graham Attwood
- Focus Puller : Keith Blake
- Camera Operator : Wally Byatt
- Chief Electrician : Steve Foster
- Stand-By Rigger : George Hobbs
- Best Boy : Steve Kitchen
- Clapper Loader : Dean Morrish, Andy Newall
- Steadicam Operator : Geoffrey Wharton
- Camera Operator : David Worley
- Focus Puller : Jason Wrenn
- Wardrobe Assistant : Tony Hughes
- Wardrobe Mistress : Rosemary Worth
- Wardrobe Supervisor : Richard Pointing
- First Assistant Editor : Matthew Glen, Jack Hilton
- Second Assistant Editor : Paul Elman, Rodney Sharpp, Adam Snell
- Negative Cutter : Scott Greene, Tim Heyen
- Additional Editor : Peter Musgrave
- Music Supervisor : John Stronach
- Music Recording Engineer : John Timperley
- Prosthetics Supervisor : Nick Dudman
- Production Coordinator : Sally Hayman
- Publicist : Marilyn Heston
- Assistant To Producer : Lesley Keane
- Assistant To Director : Jill Levy
- Accounting Assistant : Lorna Mellish
- Production Accountant : Joan Murphy
- Location Manager : John Southwood
- Production Controller : John Wall
- Script Supervisor : Beverly Winston
Plot summary
The young Irene St. Claire enlists Holmes' and Watson's help for her father, a former veteran of the Great Indian Mutiny, who has become a hopeless opium addict. His drug dependence is a direct result of guilt and fear arising from a blood pact of secrecy made during the siege of Agra in 1857 in which he was party to the theft of a maharajah's treasure, murder, and betrayal. When an avaricious co-conspirator dies under mysterious circumstances, St. Clair is certain that the curse will strike him next...
