The Crucifer of Blood (film)

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Based onThe Crucifer of Blood
by Paul Giovanni
Sherlock Holmes characters by
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Screenplay byPaul Giovanni
Fraser C. Heston
Directed byFraser Clarke Heston
(as Fraser C. Heston)
The Crucifer of Blood
Based onThe Crucifer of Blood
by Paul Giovanni
Sherlock Holmes characters by
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Screenplay byPaul Giovanni
Fraser C. Heston
Directed byFraser Clarke Heston
(as Fraser C. Heston)
StarringCharlton Heston
Richard Johnson
Edward Fox
Simon Callow
Music byCarl Davis
Country of originUnited States
United Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
Production
ProducerFraser C. Heston
CinematographyRobin Vidgeon
EditorEric Boyd-Perkins
Running time103 minutes
Production companiesTurner Pictures
British Lion
Agamemnon Films
Original release
NetworkTNT
ReleaseNovember 14, 1991 (1991-11-14)

The Crucifer of Blood is a 1991 TV movie based on the play of the same name by Paul Giovanni, who wrote the screenplay along with Fraser C. Heston, who directed the picture. The play and film are an adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle's The Sign of the Four.

Charlton Heston, the father of Fraser Heston, plays Sherlock Holmes, a role he first played in a Los Angeles production of Giovanni's play.[1] Richard Johnson co-stars as Dr. Watson and Simon Callow plays Inspector Lestrade.

The film was made in England by British Lion and Turner Films for cable television, and was first broadcast on TNT on November 14, 1991.

A beautiful young woman asks Holmes to help her father, a former army captain and hopeless opium addict break free of the curse surrounding a treasure stolen decades ago, when he was stationed in The Raj.

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