The Crucifer of Blood is a 1991 TV movie based on the play of the same name by Paul Giovanni, who wrote the screenplay along with Fraser C. Heston, who directed the picture.
The play and film are an adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle's The Sign of the Four.
[1] Richard Johnson co-stars as Dr. Watson and Simon Callow plays Inspector Lestrade.
A beautiful young woman asks Holmes to help her father, a former army captain and hopeless opium addict break free of the curse surrounding a treasure stolen decades ago, when he was stationed in The Raj.
He directed his father as Long John Silver in an adaptation of Treasure Island for TNT the year before helming The Crucifer of Blood.