Incident at Victoria Falls (1991 TV film)
- Incident at Victoria Falls (1991 TV film)
"Incident at Victoria Falls" was the second and final film in the proposed series of television films "Sherlock Holmes the Golden Years". It starred Christopher Lee and Patrick Macnee as Holmes and Watson in old age. In the film, Holmes is about to retire to Sussex and keep bees when the king sends him on a mission to South Africa to retrieve the Star of Africa diamond. [cite book |title=Sherlock Holmes |last=Kelley |first=Gordon E. |year=1994 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |isbn=9780810828599 |pages=p. 96 ] Complications arise and Holmes meets several historical characters including ex-President Theodore Roosevelt [cite news |title=Roosevelt, Holmes to join forces |url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=WT&p_theme=wt&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB0EF144AC0BA53&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM |work=The Washington Times |date=25 December 1990 |accessdate=2008-09-07 ] , portrayed by Claude Akins, and Lillie Langtry, played by Jenny Seagrove. [cite book |title=Famous Movie Detectives III |last=Pitts |first=Michael R. |year=2004 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |isbn=9780810836907 |pages=p. 223 |url=http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=xSmWVsDh8WEC&pg=PA223&dq=%22Incident+at+Victoria+Falls%22+%2Bholmes&num=100&sig=ACfU3U1WPaz1gkKd42Jgej-o1ca9-AbE9Q |accessdate=2008-09-07] He also encounters the fictional character A. J. Raffles. [cite book |title=The BFI Companion to Crime |last=Hardy |first=Phil |year=1997 |publisher=Continuum International Publishing Group |isbn=9780304332151 |pages=p. 173 |url=http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=agfHUakbj5kC&pg=PA173&dq=%22Incident+at+Victoria+Falls%22+%2Bholmes&num=100&sig=ACfU3U2rWam9jMbhXG_7gbmWMPqUWxe8jw |accessdate=2008-09-07]
References
External links
* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102115/ IMDB entry for "Incident at Victoria Falls"]
* [http://www.videovista.net/reviews/aug07/sherlock.html/ VideoVista review]
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