Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace

Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace German Sherlock Holmes und das Halsband des Todes is a 1962 blackandwhite film directed by Terence Fisher. It was a West GermanFrenchItalian international coproduction. The film starred Christopher Lee as Sherlock Holmes and Thorley Walters as Dr. Watson. Curt Siodmak wrote the screenplay, based on characters created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Onetime Universal screenwriter Curt Siodmak The Wolf Man wrote the screenplay, based on the characters created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The film was intended to be an adaptation of Doyles final Holmes novel, The Valley of Fear, but only minor elements of this story remained.West German producer Artur Brauner originally conceived the film as the first of a German film series. The producers contact with the Arthur Conan Doyle estate led to the estate vetoing their original schemes to set the film in the present day such as the Edgar Wallace German film series and have Dr. Watson played by German comedian Heinz Erhardt. Many scenes of the film had to be reshot due to the Doyle estate not approving the dailies. Director Terence Fisher wrote memos to Brauner complaining the film was too static and not cinematic enough leading to many rewrites by various uncredited screenwriters. ........

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