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...Screenplay by NICHOLAS MEYER
...this was pretty good fun, at least for a while, in Nicholas Meyer's bestseller, an affectionate if not exactly orthodox salute to Conan Doyle. High spirits and some adept literary parody helped carry along a rather shaky narrative. In the screenplay, however, Meyer is at the mercy of his own dialogue, which sounds too arch, and the same structural problem that hobbled his book...
...Screenplay by LAWRENCE B. MARCUS...
...Mayer, into paying a huge sum for the rights by inferring that it was by the unfailingly successful team of writers Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur. (They were under contract to another studio and, Hepburn suggested, couldn't sell a script under their own names.) Mayer bit and the screenplay by Michael Kanin and Ring Lardner Jr. went into production with the two baby authors making bundles and Hepburn taking an agent's cut. The film was a huge success and the screenplay won an Academy Award for Kanin and Lardner. The movie is legendary for many reasons, some...
Directed by JOHN SCHLESINGER Screenplay by WILLIAM GOLDMAN...