Adventure | Crime | UK/USA/Belgium/France | 184min
Cast: Christopher Lee, Patrick Macnee, Jenny Seagrove, Joss Ackland, Richard Todd, Claude Akins, John Indi, Steven Gurney, Sunitha Singh, Anthony Fridjhon
1910: At the behest of King Edward VII (Joss Ackland) Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson (Patrick Macnee) set off for Cape Town, South Africa. The Star of Africa, the largest diamond in the world, is being shipped to England and Holmes is to ensure that it reaches the King safely.
In South Africa, Holmes discovers that not only is a plan afoot to steal the diamond but the perpetrators are willing to resort to murder to achieve their ends.