Der Hund von Baskerville (1914)

Directed by

Rudolf Meinert

Genre

silent film, crime film, thriller film

Country

Germany

Runtime

1h 05m

Rating

4.0 of 10 from 5 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A detective investigates a supernatural hound said to haunt a family on the English moors. The story follows the hunt for a killer that may be a legendary beast.

silentmysteriousatmosphericsuspensefulgothicdarkeeriemethodical

What happens

Der Hund von Baskerville is a 1914 German silent film adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle's 1902 novel The Hound of the Baskervilles, the first film adaptation of the work. According to the website silentera.com, the film was considered lost, but has been rediscovered; the Russian Gosfilmofond film archive possesses a print, while the Filmmuseum München has a 35mm positive print. In 2019, the film received a wide home media release by Flicker Alley, along with the 1929 version. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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