Where to watch
No streaming service listed it when we checked on 13 October 2026. It may still be available where you are.
Streaming data from JustWatch
The Sign of Four
1987
· Movie
· 103 min
C
MEANRANK
68/100
Every rating
43–78
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes viewers on 43, highest is Kinopoisk on 78.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →The daughter of a British officer stationed in India receives a large pearl on the same date every year since her father's disappearance. She seeks help to uncover the mystery, which leads to a investigation involving a stolen treasure, a secret pact between four convicts, and a wooden-legged man. The search plunges them into the foggy streets of London and a world of hidden danger.
Details
- Director
- Peter Hammond
- Writer
- John Hawkesworth
- Studio
- Granada Television
- Released
- 7 March 1987
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 103 min
This title elsewhere
Cast
Full cast (23) →
Beyond the numbers
All lists →
29 October 2026
Why Batman works without superpowers—and when the films forget why
Fear, money, detective work and moral limits: four Batman films test what makes Bruce Wayne worth watching.
29 October 2026
Five great directorial debuts, ranked for what is already on screen
Citizen Kane, The 400 Blows, Get Out, Reservoir Dogs and Following: first features judged without borrowing greatness from the careers that followed.
29 October 2026
TV shows with Black female leads: four series worth arguing about
Insecure, Queen Sugar, Scandal and How to Get Away with Murder, ranked for character writing, dramatic range and the lives they make room for.
8 October 2026
Leonardo DiCaprio's films, ranked—and the performances inside them
Twenty-one selected films, with a closer look at the acting: comic timing, self-invention, wounded authority and the effort that sometimes shows.
8 October 2026
Why The Matrix still works: the action is the argument
How bodies, belief and a world with visible rules make the 1999 film more than a collection of famous effects.
8 October 2026
Batman movies ranked: the films behind the scores
Twelve theatrical films, from Adam West to Robert Pattinson, and the different claims they make for the mask.
