The Hound of the Baskervilles
film by Lanfield [1939]
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. Victorian-era detective Holmes and his assistant, Dr. Watson (Nigel Bruce), are called to Baskerville Hall in the mist-covered moors of Dartmoor in southern England. A giant spectral hound reportedly stalks the premises and kills the estate’s heirs out of vengeance for the death of a local peasant girl. The sleuths hope to protect Sir Henry Baskerville (Richard Greene), ...(100 of 227 words)