Sherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria FallsSherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria Falls - Internet Movie Firearms Database - Guns in Movies, TV and Video GamesSherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria Falls
Sherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria Falls is an international co-production 1992 made for TV two-part detective movie directed by Bill Corcoran and starring Christopher Lee as Sherlock Holmes and Patrick Macnee as Dr. John Watson. The movie uses Arthur Conan Doyle's characters but has an original plot: King Edward VII asks Sherlock Holmes to safeguard the famous brilliant "Star of Africa" on a trip to Cape Town.
This movie together with Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady (1991) 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: Incident at Victoria Falls:
Several characters, including Sherlock Holmes (Christopher Lee), Dr. John Watson (Patrick Macnee), Constantine Mavropolis (Anthony Fridjhon), Cape Town police Superintendent Henry Van Meer (Dale Cutts), and Captain James Morrison (Neil McCarthy), use Webley .455 pre-Mk VI revolvers. The details allow to identify them only marginally: Mk III, Mk IV or Mk V.
Theodore Roosevelt (Claude Akins) uses a Webley .455 Mk VI revolver in one scene. One of the Cape Town police officers carries a revolver in holster that can also be a Mk VI. The story is set in 1910, so Mk VI doesn't fit for this time.
Lee-Enfield Mk.I (or possibly but less likely nearly identical Lee-Metford) rifles are used by Sherlock Holmes (Christopher Lee), Cape Town police Lt. Grisholm (Ron Smerczak), Gugliamo Marconi (Steven Gurney) (the character turns out to be a criminal Bartini, posing as Marconi), Captain James Morrison (Neil McCarthy), and numerous British soldiers, including native ones. Both MLE and CCLE (Charger Loading Lee Enfield, rifles converted to load from chargers) are seen.
Lee-Enfield No.1 Mk.III* rifles are also used by British soldiers. Two rifles are seen, and on both the handguards are wrapped with copper wire in two places. Such wrappings were used to reinforce rifles fitted with No.1 Mk.I Cup Discharger rifle grenade launchers to minimise the risk of the stock cracking. Their appearance here is incorrect for two reason, as firstly such modifications were only ever done to rifles with damaged bores that were no longer suitable for use with normal ammunition (they were stamped EY or GL which stood for "EmergencY use only with ball ammunition" and "Grenade Launching only" respectively) so were only ever used as dedicated grenade launchers, and secondly this modification only began during WW1 which post dates the 1910 setting of the film.
