The Hound of London
The Hound of London is a television film directed by Peter ReynoldsLong and starring Patrick Macnee as Arthur Conan Doyles character Sherlock Holmes.
The screenplay was derived from a play written by Craig Bowlsby and first performed in September 1987 in Burnaby, British Columbia. For the film version, it was entirely recast with the exception of Colleen Bignell who played Irene Norton in the play and the Queen of Bohemia in the film.Patrick Macnee was cast as Sherlock Holmes. Previously, Macnee had portrayed Watson three times once to Roger Moores Sherlock Holmes in a 1976 TV movie, Sherlock Holmes in New York and twice with Christopher Lee Incident at Victoria Falls and Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady. This film made Macnee only the fourth actor to have played both Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, joining Reginald Owen Watson in the 1932 film Sherlock Holmes, and then Holmes in 1933s A Study in Scarlet, Jeremy Brett Watson on stage in The Crucifer of Blood and Holmes on television in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Carleton Hobbs who played both roles in British radio adaptations. ........
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