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Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady is an international co-production 1991 made for TV two-part detective movie directed by Peter Sasdy and starring Christopher Lee as Sherlock Holmes and Patrick Macnee as Dr. Watson. The movie uses Arthur Conan Doyle's characters but has an original plot: in 1910 Mycroft Holmes asks Sherlock to travel to Vienna and find the stolen plans for a brand new electromagnetic bomb detonator. Once there, Holmes and Watson meet with Irene Adler (Morgan Fairchild) who returns to her singer career.
This movie and the following Sherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria Falls (1992) form a series entitled Sherlock Holmes the Golden Years. It was initially announced as a miniseries, but only two films (each in two parts) were made.
The following weapons were used in the film Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady:
Various revolvers are used during Holmes' confrontation with von Bork and in the scene with Bosnian kidnappers. They aren't seen clear enough for positive identification.
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Holmes takes a revolver from German agent Major Von Bork (Dominic Jephcott). The gun has flat wide top of the frame; possibly it's a reused Webley RIC but it's only a guess.
Another Bosnian, Kosich (Kevin Quarmby), holds a revolver that has a side-mounted ejector rod, connected with the barrel by a knob near the muzzle but seemingly without a rod housing (unlike Single Action Army, for example).
In same scene Elliott Ness (Tom Lahm) (yes, thatEliott Ness, credited in this film as "Elliott") uses a revolver that is seen very briefly. It bears some resemblance with foregoing Webley RIC but looks somewhat different.
Hugo Oberstein (Paul Humpoletz) uses a Luger P08. Upon close inspection, his pistol appears to be not a genuine Luger but some kind of replica, possibly even a plastic toy gun.
Austro-Hungarian Army Capt. Franz Winterhauser (Michael Siberry) uses a Mauser C96 pistol. The gun lacks a hole through the knob of the safety lever, so it is Wartime Commercial model that appeared only in 1912.
A pair of duelling pistols (most likely percussion) is very briefly seen in a box, hold by the director of Vienna operetta Franz Dietrich (James Bree) when he challenges the theater critic Franz Hoffman (Robert Rietty) to a duel.
