The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939)

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Audience Score
71
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NR 1 hr 20 minMar 31st, 1939Horror, Thriller, MysterySherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) Collection PosterPart of Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) Collection
On his uncle's death Sir Henry Baskerville returns from Canada to take charge of his ancestral hall on the desolate moors of Devonshire, and finds that Sherlock Holmes is there to investigate the local belief that his uncle was killed by a monster hound that has roamed the moors since 1650, and is likely to strike again at Sir Henry.
StarringRichard GreeneBasil RathboneWendy Barrie
DirectorSidney Lanfield

Movie Details

Theatrical Release:March 31st, 1939
On DVD & Blu-ray:January 1st, 1990 - Buy DVD
Original Language:English
Executive Producers:Darryl F. Zanuck
Production Companies:20th Century Fox
Movie Tags:
based on novel or bookblack and whitesequeldogrural areafugitivesherlock holmesdevonmoor (terrain)red herring

Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) Collection

A series of fourteen films based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories was released between 1939 and 1946; the British actors Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce played Holmes and Dr. John Watson, respectively. The first two films in the series were produced by 20th Century Fox and released in 1939. The studio stopped making the films after these, but Universal Pictures acquired the rights from the Doyle estate and produced a further twelve films. Although the films from 20th Century Fox had large budgets, high production values, and were set in the Victorian era, Universal updated the films to the contemporary era of the Second World War, and produced them as B pictures with lower budgets. Both Rathbone and Bruce continued their roles when the series changed studios, as did Mary Gordon, who played the recurring character, Mrs. Hudson.