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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.6 / 5.0

THE EXCELLENT ORIGINAL.:

A phantom hound roams the moors of Dartmoor near Baskerville Hall.........Putting its straightest face upon the matter and being so weird as all get-out, the film succeeds rather well in reproducing Sir Arthur's macabre detective story. Based upon the 1902 novel by Sir Conan Doyle, this was the first film in the Fox series featuring Sherlock Holmes. THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES was Rathbone's favourite of the series, and although it wasn't quite the best one (that honour would have to go to THE ADVENTURES... more info

Watson's finest hour on film:

Many actors have tried, but none has surpassed Basil Rathbone's embodiment of Sherlock Holmes. The razor-sharp profile, hawk nose and cocaine eyes seem torn straight from the pages of Arthur Conan Doyle. This is, undeniably, one of the great pairings of actor and character in film history.

Odd to think, then, that the first Holmes film with Rathbone and his faithful Dr. Watson, Nigel Bruce, gave neither man starring credit. That honor on "The Hound of the Baskervilles" went to the romantic leading man,... more info

HOUND: A Child's Memory:

I first saw this movie on TV when I was 9 or 10 in 1963-64. We lived in Los Angeles, and local channel 9 would run the SAME movie, Monday through Friday, for one week at 7:00 or 8:00 on its "Million Dollar Movie" program (a ridiculous title nowadays). Anyway, I watched it all five times in one week and adored it. I didn't see it again until its special, limited re-release to theaters in 1975; by then, I was a dyed-in-the-wool Sherlockian. Remarkably, my 10-year-old mind hadn't exaggerated the greatness of... more info

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