The Crucifer of Blood [1991]

Country of Origin: UK / USA
Date(s) of Broadcast: 4 November 1991
Number of Seasons: N/A
Total Number of Episodes: 1
Running Times: 103 mins
Format: colour
Sound:

PRODUCTION
Production Companies: Agamemnon Films / British Lion Film Corporation / Lynch Entertainment / Turner Pictures
Executive Producers: Richard Horner, Peter Snell, Lynne Stuart
Producer: Fraser Clarke Heston
Associate Producer: Ted Lloyd
Production Coordinator: Sally Hayman

SCRIPT
Script: Fraser C. Heston
Novel: The Sign of Four by Arthur Conan Doyle
Play: Paul Giovanni

DIRECTION
Director: Fraser C. Heston
1st Assistant Director: Terry Needham
2nd Assistant Director: Michael Stevenson
3rd Assistant Director: David Carrigan

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Robin Vidgeon
Camera Operators: Wally Byatt, David Worley
Steadicam Operator: Geoffrey Wharton
Clapper Loaders: Dean Morrish, Andy Newall
Focus Pullers: Keith Blake, Jason Wrenn
Chief Electrician: Steve Foster
Best Boy: Steve Kitchen
Stills: Graham Attwood

EDITING AND POST PRODUCTION
Editor: Eric Boyd-Perkins
Additional Editor: Peter Musgrave
1st Assistant Editors: Matthew Glen, Jack Hilton
2nd Assistant Editors: Paul Ellman, Rodney Sharpp, Adam Snell
Negative Cutters: Scott Greene, Tim Heyem

MUSIC
Music: Carl Davis
Music Supervisor: John Stronach
Music Recording Engineer: John Timberley

SOUND
Boom Operator: Gerald Bates
Sound Mixer: Brian Simmons
Re-Recording Mixers: Jay M. Harding, Don MacDougall, Douglas E. Turner
Supervising Sound Editor: Norval D. Crutcher
Sound Editors: Samuel C. Crutcher, G.W. Davis, Joseph Holsen, Gilberto C. Nunes
ADR Mixers: Ron Bedrosian, John Dunkley
Sound Trainee: Jeremy West
Post-Production Sound: Ryder Sound Services Inc

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up: Nick Dudman, Suzanne Reynolds
Hair Supervisor: Jan Dorman
Hair: Linda Catlin
Wardrobe Supervisor: Richard Pointing
Wardrobe Mistress: Rosemary Worth
Wardrobe Assistant: Tony Hughes

SPECIAL MAKE UP EFFECTS
Prosthetics Supervisor: Nick Dudman

SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Effects Supervisor: Neil Corbould
Special Effects Trainee: Marcus Richardson

VISUAL EFFECTS
Titles and Opticals: CFI

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: Tony Woollard
Art Director: Malcolm Stone
Set Decorator: Maggie Gray
Property Masters: Terry Wells, Kevin Wheeler
Dressing Props: Gary Ixer
Stand-By Props: Mark Fruin, Terry Wells Jr
Property Storeman: Michael Wolfson
Production Buyer: Peter Rutherford
Construction Manager: Roy Evans
Stand-By Carpenter: Arthur Holland
Stand-By Painter: Perry Bell
Storyboard Artist: Roger W. Deer

MISCELLANEOUS
Script Supervisor: Beverly Winston
Production Accountant: Joan Murphy
Accounting Assistant: Lorna Mellish
Production Controller: John Wall
Assistant to Producer: Lesley Keane
Assistant to Director: Jill Levy
Publicist: Marilyn Heston
Stand-By Rigger: George Hobbs
Stand-By Stagehand: Eamonn Redmond

LOCATIONS
Studio: Pinewood Studios, Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire, England, UK
Location Manager: John Southwood

STUNTS
Stunt Coordinator: Eddie Stacey

CASTING
Casting: Rebecca Howard

CAST
Charlton Heston [Sherlock Holmes]
Richard Johnson [Dr Watson]
Susannah Harker [Irene St. Claire]
Edward Fox [Alistair Ross]
John Castle [Neville St Claire]
Simon Callow [Inspector Lestrade]
Clive Wood [Jonathan Small]
James Coyle [Birdy Johnson]
Kaleem Janjua [Durga Dass]
Stefan Kalipha [Wali Dad]
Lloyd McGuire [PC Hopkins]
Kiran Shah [Tonga]
Sidney Livingstone [Mordecai Smith]
Roly Lamas [leper]

USA
Television Distributor: Turner Network Television

CENSORSHIP HISTORY

USA
Rating: PG

1991
November
4: USA - television broadcast

2002
June
6: USA - television broadcast

El crucifijo de sangre - Spanish title
Sherlock Holmes et la croix du sang - French title
Sherlock Holmes: il mistero del crocifero di sangue - Italian title

SEE ALSO
Sherlock Holmes and the Sign of Four [1983]
The Sign of Four [1932]
The Sign of Four [1983]
The Sign of Four [1987]
The Sign of Four [2001]

KEYWORDS

book into film; play into film; sherlock holmes; revenge; detectives; pigmies