When a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, detective Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate.When a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, detective Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate.When a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, detective Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate.
André Morell
- Doctor Watson
- (as Andre Morell)
Elizabeth Gott
- Mrs. Goodlippe
- (uncredited)
Ian Hewitson
- Lord Kingsblood
- (uncredited)
Christopher Trace
- Sir Hugo's Crony
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaOriginally proposed by brief Hammer cohort Kenneth Hyman, this movie was planned to be the first in a series of many Sherlock Holmes movies starring Peter Cushing, produced by Hammer Films. When the audiences disapproved of a Hammer movie without any monsters and failed to turn up in great numbers, the planned series was subsequently dropped.
- GoofsAfter Stapleton is shot, the dog starts to run past him. Stapleton clearly pulls the dog onto him to make it look like he is being attacked.
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Sherlock Holmes: This, I think, is a two-pipe problem.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Aweful Movies with Deadly Earnest: The Hound of the Baskervilles (1969)
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Sometimes you could count on Hammer to never ham it up for the cameras!
Hammer Studio's greatest stars in top form prove to this day that old-fashioned, relatively cheap yet eerie good films can look and work when quality pros are at work. Conan Doyle did not focus here on detective intrigue, but on a gloomy atmosphere, since the surroundings of the Baskerville estate over which the family curse prevailed favored a Gothic mood. The sequences with the tarantula thrown up on Sir Henry Baskerville (suffering from arachnophobia), Sherlock's visit to an abandoned mine collapsing through the efforts of some undetermined criminal, exemplify the fine pumping up of suspenseful strain. There are also some lightweight scenes - for example, with the participation of a good-natured bishop whose distraction almost costs the young aristocrat his life. Hitchcockian "Hammers", which included the director Terence Fisher, hardly used to claim the laurels of major artists, being more modestly content with the title of artisans. Be that as it may, the studio's default experience with the horror genre in its classical form enriched the Holmesian cult. One can't help comparing it to other (at this point about two and a half dozen!) attempts to adapt the famous story. The 1939 version was quite good by the way.
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- jgcorrea
- Nov 24, 2019
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- Runtime1 hour 27 minutes
- Aspect ratio
- 1.66 : 1
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