The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939) - starring Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes
0The Hound of the Baskervilles is a 1939 mystery film based on the 1902 novel The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It was directed by Sidney Lanfield and released by 20th Century-Fox.
It is among the best-known cinematic adaptations of the book, and is often regarded as one of the best. The film stars Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes, Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson and Richard Greene as Henry Baskerville, Wendy Barrie as Beryl Stapleton. Fox was unsure of the potential of a film about Sherlock Holmes, so top billing went to Richard Greene and not to Rathbone.
The Hound of the Baskervilles marks the first of the fourteen Sherlock Holmes films starring Rathbone and Bruce as Holmes and Watson, respectively. It is also notable as the earliest known Sherlock Holmes film to be set in the Victorian period of the original stories. All known previous Holmes films, up to and including the 1930s British film series starring Arthur Wontner as Holmes, had been updated to a setting contemporaneous with the films' release.
CREDITS
Directed by Sidney Lanfield
Produced by Gene Markey & Darryl F. Zanuck
Screenplay by Ernest Pascal
Based on the 1902 novel "The Hound of the Baskervilles" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Starring
Richard Greene, Basil Rathbone, Wendy Barrie, Nigel Bruce
Music by David Buttolph
Charles Maxwell
Cyril J. Mockridge
David Raksin
Cinematography Peverell Marley
Edited by Robert Simpson
Distributed by 20th Century Fox
Release date March 31, 1939
Running time 80 minutes
Country: United States
Language: English
CAST
Richard Greene as Sir Henry Baskerville
Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes
Wendy Barrie as Beryl Stapleton
Nigel Bruce as Dr John H. Watson
Lionel Atwill as Dr James Mortimer
John Carradine as Barryman, butler
Morton Lowry as John (Jack) Stapleton
Eily Malyon as Mrs Barryman
Barlowe Borland as Frankland
Beryl Mercer as Mrs Jennifer Mortimer
Ralph Forbes as Sir Hugo Baskerville (in flashback sequence)
E. E. Clive as Cabby in London
Lionel Pape as Coroner
Nigel De Brulier as Convict (as Nigel de Brulier)
Mary Gordon as Mrs Hudson
Ian Maclaren as Sir Charles
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