The Hound of the Baskervilles 1939
Directed by Sidney Lanfield
- Mystery, Crime, Horror, Thriller
- 80 min
- NR
When a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, detective Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate.
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Classical in form, earnest, resolved and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- resolvedopen-ended
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
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Cast
- Richard GreeneSir Henry Baskerville
- Basil RathboneSherlock Holmes
- Wendy BarrieBeryl Stapleton
- Nigel BruceDoctor John H. Watson
- Lionel AtwillDr. James Mortimer
- John CarradineBarryman
- Barlowe BorlandFrankland
- Beryl MercerMrs. Jennifer Mortimer
- Morton LowryJohn 'Jack' Stapleton
- Ralph ForbesSir Hugo Baskerville
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- Sidney LanfieldDirector
- Ernest PascalScreenplay
- Arthur Conan DoyleNovel
- J. Peverell MarleyDirector of Photography
- Robert L. SimpsonEditor
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