Basil Rathbone
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The Hound of the Baskervilles: Directed by Sidney Lanfield. With Richard Greene, Basil Rathbone, Wendy Barrie, Nigel Bruce. Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson investigate the legend of a supernatural hound, a beast that may be stalking a young heir on the fog-shrouded moorland that makes up his estate.
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- Crime, Mystery, Thriller
- Sidney Lanfield
- 1939-03-31
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 Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Dr. John Watson.
In London, 1889, Dr James Mortimer asks for the aid of Sherlock Holmes, recounting the legend of a curse that has run in the Baskerville family since the time of the English Civil War, when Sir Hugo Baskerville kidnapped a farmer's daughter. When the girl escaped, Hugo made a deal with the devil and pursued her.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
- 1902
'Hound of the Baskervilles' in film form retains all of the suspensefully dramatic ingredients of Conan Doyle's popular adventure of Sherlock Holmes in the moors of Devonshire. It's a startling mystery-chiller developed along logical lines without resort to implausible situations and over-theatrics.
The Hound of the Baskervilles, American mystery-detective film, released in 1939, that was adapted from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s classic novel of the same name. It is noted for Basil Rathbone’s debut as Sherlock Holmes, a role that would define his career.
It is based on the 1902 novel of the same title by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It stars Peter Cushing as Sherlock Holmes, Sir Christopher Lee as Sir Henry Baskerville and André Morell as Doctor Watson. It is the first film adaptation of the novel to be filmed in colour.
