Monthly Meeting of The Notorious Canary Trainers

[Glen Link]

I'm not sure if a reminder has gone out for this month's meeting. If I missed it, I apologize to Johanna. She has been very occupied this month, and her work with 221B Con is very appreciated.

Anyway, we will be meeting this Sunday, April 19^th at the Fitchburg Public Library from 3:00 to 4:30 pm. We will be discussing Valley of Fear. We will be discussing the entire book since March's meeting was cancelled due to a snowstorm. Hasn't the weather been wonderful this year?

I hope to see you there.

Hansom Cab

a.k.a. Glen Link

[joh...@comicsworthreading.com]

Thanks, Glen. You didn’t miss a reminder - it was on my list for today, but I really appreciate you taking care of that for me! 

The Valley of Fear interests me because there are so few adaptations of it. I’m not sure why. 

Johanna Draper Carlson
joh...@comicsworthreading.com

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[Max Magee]

> because there are so few adaptations of it. I’m not sure why. 

Apparently (and I wouldn't have known that from watching it), Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace (1962), starring Christopher Lee as Holmes was supposed to be an adaptation of Valley of Fear. Instead it was...weird and bad. Oh, and one of the reasons it has had such a small number of faithful adaptations (and few altogether), may have been the Doyle Estate's meddling...

From the Wikipedia article:

     One-time 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 Doyle's 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.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock_Holmes_and_the_Deadly_Necklace

OH, and although I thought I owned that one on VHS tape, I actually was thinking of Sherlock Holmes and the Incident at Victoria Falls, released more than 30 years later! (I like the cover of Victoria Falls).

Max

Max "Magic Jezail Bullet" Magee

"I would sooner face a Martini bullet myself. Are you game for a six-mile trudge, Watson?...Your leg will stand it?"

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[Rudy Altergott]

This is a discussion I will definitely regret to miss. One of my favorite Canonical entries. 

Enjoy... and watch out for Pinkertons and Scowrers!

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