PURSUIT TO ALGIERS (Universal, 1945) Annotated Original Script * Sherlock Holmes

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A. Conan Doyle (Leonard Lee, screenwriter). PURSUIT TO ALGIERS [here bearing the initial title "The Fugitive."] Los Angeles: Universal Studios, 1945. Dated July 26th, 1945, Leonard Lee's complete brad-bound studio mimeographed draft script (production number #7309 stamped on the cover) consists of 113pp of typescript bearing numerous penciled revisions, emendations, and additions - along with another 20pp of massively hand-corrected typescript which clearly had contained so many penciled changes that the pages had to be retyped. These remarkably annotated pages have been appended to the rear of the screenplay, creating a 133pp comprehensive look at the evolution of the script. Given the fragile nature of WW2-era scripts, this example is in excellent original condition, very good indeed, the pages are a little soft with some very light edge-wear and tears. PURSUIT TO ALGIERS, set almost entirely on a passenger ship, required elaborate sets and thus became the series's most expensive production; it premiered at the Rialto Theatre in New York on October 26th, 1945. The twelve Sherlock Holmes films produced by Universal Pictures during the years 1942-1946 are legend; they are surely the best known screen-adapted adventures of English Literature's most iconic character and Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce are still cherished, despite our current superb 21st century film and TV adaptations, as the definitive Holmes and Watson.