Hands Of A Murderer is a 1990 British TV movie that was written by Charles Edward Pogue and directed by Stuart Orme. Pogue had previously written 2 British TV movies with Ian Richardson playing Sherlock Homes. They came out in 1983 and HOAM would have been part of that series, under the title The Prince Of Crime, but it didn't get produced because the Granada Sherlock series started in 1984. Producer Sy Weintraub took Granada to court and won 2 million pounds. Edward Woodward plays Sherlock Holmes and John Hillerman plays Dr Watson. Anthony Andrews plays Professor Moriarty and Peter Jeffrey plays Mycroft Holmes. Moriarty is about to be hung but he manages to escape while his head is in the noose. He had some help, a pretty redhead played by Kim Thomson and his own henchmen. Holmes is furious with Lestrade, played by Terence Lodge, and he plans to go after Moriarty. Mycroft asks Sherlock to help him with a leak in his office but Sherlock is focused on Moriarty. That scumbag has a plan going to steal the code to secret documents that Mycroft receives. Moriarty kidnaps Mycroft to get the code from him and Sherlock is on his trail. It wasn't too bad a story, there's action and the story moves along fairly well. Locations, sets and props are all good. I got used to Woodward and Hillerman as Holmes and Watson but they aren't ever going to be my favs. Moriarty was a more interesting character. It's an interesting addition to the Holmes collection and I'd still watch it again someday.
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