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SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE SECRET WEAPON [
SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE SECRET WEAPON [

SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE SECRET WEAPON ["...FIGHTS BACK"] (1942) Orig film script

$ 1056

Availability: 100 in stock
  • Condition: See item's description below for specific details on condition.
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  • Item must be returned within: 14 Days
  • Format: Script / Screenplay
  • Modified Item: No
  • All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
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  • Refund will be given as: Money Back
  • Condition / Grading: Fine, in Good-Very Good wrappers

    Description

    SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE SECRET WEAPON ["SHERLOCK HOLMES FIGHTS BACK"] (1942)
    Screenplay by Scott Darling & Edward T. Lowe, based on a free adaptation of "The Dancing Men" (later "The Adventure of the Dancing Men") by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, released as SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE SECRET WEAPON [Los Angeles: Universal Pictures], 22 May–17 June 1942.
    [1],110 leaves plus numerous numbered or lettered revised inserts or appended leaves. Quarto. Original carbon typescript on rectos only of onion skin stock denoted “Contract File Copy” in red. Brad-bound in typed wrappers (neatly detached). Production number stamped on upper wrapper, upper wrapper heavily creased, with resulting cracks in brittle stock and small chips, but the typescript itself is FINE (in GOOD-VERY GOOD detached wrappers).
    Vintage original film script, USA. A very early revised pre-production script, in highly privileged format, of this adaptation to the screen for Universal’s distinguished series of
    Sherlock Holmes
    adaptations. This particular copy includes the revisions and "additional changes" by Edmund L. Hartmann that were made over the time span subsequent to the third draft of Darling and Lowe’s script, and they are substantial.
    The film, directed by Roy William Neill, and starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce, was released on 12 February 1943, and it is probable that even more alterations were made prior to the final shooting script. Script material relating to any of the pre-1950
    Holmes
    films is uncommon, particularly material from such an early stage of development. Although well over one hundred and fifty adaptations of
    Sherlock Holmes
    to the screen are known, beginning with SHERLOCK HOLMES BAFFLED (1903), the Rathbone-Bruce portrayals have become almost canonical, beginning with THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES (March 1939), and concluding with the twelfth in sequence, DRESSED TO KILL (1946). De Waal 5149.
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