The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939)
- Directed by
- Sidney Lanfield
- Genre
- horror film, crime film, mystery film, monster film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 20m
- Rated
- NR
- Rating
- 7.1 of 10 from 231 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson investigate a family curse involving a demonic hound on the foggy moors of England. They try to protect the heir to the Baskerville estate from a terrifying supernatural threat.
gothicmysteriousatmosphericbroodingsuspensefulmurkytenseold-fashioned
What happens
The Hound of the Baskervilles is a 1939 American gothic mystery film based on the 1902 Sherlock Holmes novel of the same name by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Directed by Sidney Lanfield, the film stars Basil Rathbone as Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Dr. John Watson. Released by 20th Century Fox, it is the first of fourteen Sherlock Holmes films released between 1939 and 1946 starring Rathbone and Bruce. Among the most-known cinematic adaptations of the novel, the film co-stars Richard Greene as Henry Baskerville (who received top billing, as the studio was unsure of the potential of a film about Sherlock Holmes) and Wendy Barrie as Beryl Stapleton. The Hound of the Baskervilles is notable as the first Sherlock Holmes film to be set in the Victorian period like the original books. All known previous Holmes films, up to and including the 1930s British film series starring Arthur Wontner as Holmes, had been updated to a setting contemporaneous with the films' release. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.