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aint_no_life_nowhere

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8. A Study In Scarlet

Fri Jan 24, 2014, 07:04 PM

Jan 2014

As a major Sir Arthur Conan Doyle aficionado, I'd like to see a feature film length adaptation of that Sherlock Holmes novel. It was tried in the 1960s on British TV with the great Peter Cushing in the role of Sherlock Holmes. But the novel's story was greatly abridged; it didn't show how Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson first met and became friends, nor did it show the very extensive and exciting story about murder in the American west in Mormon territory. I'd want it set in the proper Victorian era and with an actor who could carry the difficult role of the dark, brooding, complex Holmes as well as Jeremy Brett could. Please, no 21st century adaptation and no Mr.Cumberbatch who I don't think very much of. I love Sherlock Holmes but I'm not a fan of Sherlock.

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