The Hound of the Baskervilles
- Original title
- The Hound of the Baskervilles
- Year
- 1959
- Running time
- 87 min.
- Country
United Kingdom
- Director
- Screenwriter
- Peter Bryan. Novel: Arthur Conan Doyle
- Cast
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- Peter Cushing
- André Morell
- Christopher Lee
- Marla Landi
- Ewen Solon
- David Oxley
- Francis De Wolff
- John Le Mesurier
- Helen Goss
- Sam Kydd
- Miles Malleson
- Michael Hawkins
- Michael Mulcaster
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- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
Hammer Productions. Distributor: United Artists- Genre
- Horror. Mystery | Sherlock Holmes. Dogs/Wolves
- Movie Groups
- Sherlock Holmes | Arthur Conan Doyle Adaptations
- Synopsis
- Sherlock Holmes gets the Gothic treatment in this mix of mystery and supernatural horror from Britain’s Hammer Films. Peter Cushing is perfectly cast as the great detective, the very embodiment of science and reason (which also made him a great Van Helsing in the Dracula series) in a case wound around a legacy of aristocratic cruelty and a devilish dog wandering the swampy moors. Christopher Lee is a less satisfying fit as the last of the Baskervilles, as he waffles between fear and apathetic disregard, but Andre Morell is a fine Dr. Watson and a far cry from Nigel Bruce’s sweet bumbler from the Hollywood incarnation of the 1940s. Director Terence Fisher was Hammer’s top stylist and the film drips with the mood of the moors, mist hanging in the air, the dying vegetation itself threatening to come to life and trap the next unwary traveler.
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