The Sign of Four

Name: The Sign of Four
Genre: Mystery
Released: 2001-03-23
Duration: 1 h 30 min
Rating: 6
Cast: Matt Frewer, Kenneth Welsh, Sophie Lorain

TV Movie
2001
1h 30m

IMDb RATING

6.0/10

638

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Mystery

Greed, betrayal and vengeance set the stage for this Sir Arthur Conan Doyle classic. Mary Morstan, a young governess, has been receiving a rare and lustrous pearl annually from an anonymous ... Read allGreed, betrayal and vengeance set the stage for this Sir Arthur Conan Doyle classic. Mary Morstan, a young governess, has been receiving a rare and lustrous pearl annually from an anonymous benefactor. This mysterious person now wants a meeting. Anxious and bewildered, Miss Morst... Read allGreed, betrayal and vengeance set the stage for this Sir Arthur Conan Doyle classic. Mary Morstan, a young governess, has been receiving a rare and lustrous pearl annually from an anonymous benefactor. This mysterious person now wants a meeting. Anxious and bewildered, Miss Morstan enlists Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson to escort her to this meeting. Together they go ... Read all

Director
- Rodney Gibbons
Writers
- Arthur Conan Doyle
- Joe Wiesenfeld
Stars

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IMDb RATING

6.0/10

638

YOUR RATING

Director
- Rodney Gibbons
Writers
- Arthur Conan Doyle
- Joe Wiesenfeld
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

Did you know

Trivia
The film was produced for The Hallmark Channel as the second installment in a four-part series of Hallmark Sherlock Holmes films. They were all directed by Rodney Gibbons, and he was involved in writing final drafts for the first three and wrote the screenplay for the final film. They all starred Matt Frewer as Sherlock and Kenneth Welsh as Dr. Watson. The films were The Hound of the Baskervilles (2000), The Sign of Four (2001), The Royal Scandal (2001) and The Case of the Whitechapel Vampire (2002).

Goofs
While bluffing to get information from Mrs. Smith about the Aurora, Holmes says "Judge Jeffereys and Dr. Crippen have beaten us to it". This is clearly intended as a joke, as well as perhaps a nod to Holmes' encyclopedic knowledge of crime. Of the two, the only one Holmes would have known about is Jeffereys, a seventeenth century judge famous for handing down executions. Dr. Crippen was an alleged murderer who was accused of poisoning his wife, caught, tried, and executed. However, this event did not happen until 1910. "The Sign of the Four" takes place in 1890, a good 20 years before Crippen's name would have hit the papers.