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Weintraub went through much trouble and spent much money to get the rights to the Holmes tales, not knowing that the copyright was soon to expire in the UK and that Granada were about to commence their own series starring Jeremy Brett. Films of The Sign Of Four, The Hound Of The Baskervilles and The Prince Of Crime, which would adapt the stories featuring Holmes’s arch enemy Professor Moriarty, were all scripted by Charles Edward Pogue, who added an extra murder, a couple of action beats and a fairground climax to Doyle’s story The Sign Of The Four, and this one was shot first, at Shepperton Studios and on location in London. In 1982, American producer Sy Weintraub partnered with English producer Otto Plaschkes to produce 30 Holmes films for TV, cable, video and even theatrical release. This offering though does interestingly look forward to the Guy Ritchie Holmes films with their more action-orientated approach, and it also offers a nice interpretation of the World’s Greatest Detective that may become one of my favourites. This adaptation tell us much of what is going on right from the beginning, allowing us to watch the villains at work and making Holmes’ exciting deductions seem anti-climactic. The first to be shot, The Sign Of Four, is the more flawed of the two, largely because of the odd way it re-arranges a story which originally had Holmes, and the reader, gradually piece a mystery together, and concluded with a lengthy flashback which revealed all. Some purists may find a lot to annoy, so much so that it’s possible that this would be more enjoyed by more casual fans of the character, but don’t think about Doyle too much and you should have a fair bit of fun. The approach taken by them is less bound by the need to stick closely to Arthur Conan Doyle’s texts, and slightly plays up the thrill side of things. Second Sight’s release of Richardson’s two Holmes efforts, efforts which are almost obscure by comparison to Granada’s great series, reveals an interesting case of ‘what might have been’.
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