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

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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