The Hound of the Baskervilles

The Hound of the Baskervilles is a 1959 British detective film produced by Hammer Films and is directed by Terence Fisher. The film is an adaptation from the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle novel of the same name and stars Peter Cushing as Sherlock Holmes, Christopher Lee as Sir Henry Baskerville and André Morell as Watson. It also starred Marla Landi, Ewen Solon, Francis de Wolff, John Le Mesurier and Miles Malleson. The Hound of the Baskervilles was fil... more

The Hound of the Baskervilles is a 1959 British detective film produced by Hammer Films and is directed by Terence Fisher. The film is an adaptation from the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle novel of the same name and stars Peter Cushing as Sherlock Holmes, Christopher Lee as Sir Henry Baskerville and André Morell as Watson. It also starred Marla Landi, Ewen Solon, Francis de Wolff, John Le Mesurier and Miles Malleson. The Hound of the Baskervilles was filmed at Bray Studios during 1958. The exterior of Baskerville Hall is recognisable as Dracula's castle in Dracula, made the previous year. Filming also took place on location at Chobham Common and Frensham Ponds, both in Surrey. The Holmes of Peter Cushing received some criticism at the time, chiefly because he was not Basil Rathbone, who up to that point had been the definitive Sherlock Holmes. But time has been extremely kind to Cushing's interpretation, which for the first time presented the character truly as written by Doyle: prickly,... less