The original script for the film is here if you want to read it. It does not improve the film. That was not a butchered masterpiece. This takes forever - 224 pages - I can imagine it clocks in at over three hours (and Wilder once considered songs!).
It's atypical to his other work being a series of episodes. It starts includes a really, really long scene where Watson's ancestor opens a box containing the stories from Watson (well it's not super long and has a cute character, a big time Holmes fan but it takes him until page 10 to do something that could be done in one).
There's a section on a train where Holmes deduces something about an Italian, "The Curious Case of the Upside Down Room" where Holmes and Watson help Lestrade figure out a mystery of an upside down room, flashbacks to Oxford etc during the main story, "The Dreadful business of the naked honeymooners" a sketch where the duo on a ship investigate a death that turns out to be not a death, and an epilogue where Lestrade asks for help finding Jack the Ripper.
I don't mean to be rude but it's all very pointless. This must have been agony to sit through. It's basically an attempt to do a slight tweak on Holmes - made with love, fun, I get it, but at heart this is a glossy TV series.
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