C'mon Universal....THE SEVEN PER CENT SOLUTION (1 Viewer)

[Clay_E]

That would indeed be a good thing. In the meantime, I just wish I knew someone in the UK with a DVD recorder...

 

[Darrell Bratz]

As a fan of both, I'd say they have virtually nothing meaningful in common. An interest in deconstruction perhaps, but they go after deconstructing different things in tonally wholly different ways. They're both original Sherlock Holmes stories from the same decade interested more in why he deduces rather than what, but that's a pretty superficial similarity.

 

[Clay_E]

One other thing they don't have in common: currently, you can get The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes on DVD (and it's a pretty good DVD as well).

 

[Dick]

I've always wondered why Nicholas Meyer's second Holmes novel, The West End Horror, was never adapted for the screen. It certainly wasn't as good a book as Seven Percent Solution, but considering the American (and probably British) appetite for all things Holmes, I'm just puzzled as to why this slipped through the cracks.

 

[Clay_E]

According to David Stuart Davies' excellent book Starring Sherlock Holmes, the reason was that The Seven-Per-Cent Solution was enough of a box office disappointment that it didn't justify a sequel.

 

[Mary_P]

Start looking -- quickly -- for someone with a DVD recorder in the US. It's airing on the Sundance Channel tonight.

 

[Clay_E]

ARGH! I own a DVD Recorder, but no longer have Sundance Channel on my cable. Have to find someone who does, and *fast*....thanks for the tip!

 

[Bob Cashill]

I like THE WEST END HORROR, but I assume it was never filmed in part because MURDER BY DECREE (1979) tread similar ground.

 

[Mary_P]

You're welcome, and if you missed it tonight, don't despair -- Sundance Channel's website says it'll be airing again several times at the end of March:

Sundance Channel : Film : Seven-Per-Cent Solution

I think TCM has run it in the past year, so you might want to check their listings on occasion too.