Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Hound of The Baskervilles DVD (1939) - MPI Home Video

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DVD Details

Audio commentary by David Stuart Davies
Production Notes by Richard Valley
Selected Theatrical Trailers
Photo Gallery
Rated: Not Rated
Run Time: 1 hours, 20 minutes
Video: Black & White
Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
Released: April 27, 2004
Originally Released: 1939
Label: MPI Home Video

Performers, Cast and Crew:

Starring		Richard Greene, John Carradine, Basil Rathbone, Lionel Atwill & Nigel Bruce
Performer:		Wendy Barrie, Barlowe Borland, Beryl Mercer, Morton Lowry, Ralph Forbes, Eily Malyon & Mary Gordon
Directed by		Sidney Lanfield
Edited by		Robert Simpson
Screenwriting by		Ernest Pascal
Story by		Arthur Conan Doyle
Produced by		Darryl F. Zanuck
Director of Photography:		J. Peverell Marley

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Description by OLDIES.com:

The most celebrated tale of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's canon, The Hound of the Baskervilles is set in the Victorian Age and was originally released by Twentieth Century-Fox in 1939. It is the first of the fourteen Sherlock Holmes films starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce.

When Sir Charles Baskerville is killed outside of Baskerville Hall, his good friend Dr. Mortimer (Lionel Atwill) fears that the curse of the Baskervilles has struck once again. Mortimer enlists the help of Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone), before yet another Baskerville can succumb to the evil legend.

Sir Henry Baskerville (Richard Greene) arrives in London to claim his inheritance, Mortimer takes Sir Henry to 221b Baker Street and expresses his fear for Sir Henry's life. Baskerville soon learns that along with the grand mansion on the moor, comes a devlilish curse, a curious butler (John Carradine) and a cast of bizarre neighbors.

Holmes, pressed with "other business," sends Dr. Watson (Nigel Bruce) to accompany Sir Henry to the dreary moor to protect the young Baskerville from the legend of the wicked hound. Of course, with danger afoot, Sherlock Holmes may not be so far from the scene as is assumed.

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The first of 14 films pairing Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce as the definitive Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, this version of THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES remains the most celebrated adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic mystery. When his uncle is found murdered on the grounds of the family estate, Sir Henry Baskerville (Richard Greene) arrives from abroad to claim his ancestral home on the fog-shrouded Devonshire moors. But family friend Dr. Mortimer (Lionel Atwill) brings Sir Henry to master sleuth Sherlock Holmes with fears for the young heir's life and tales of a family curse placed upon the Baskerville clan. Together they travel to the desolate Baskerville Hall and encounter a slew of mysterious goings-on, including a suspicious butler (John Carradine) and the ghost of a hound haunting the moors. Dripping with atmosphere, this suspenseful and absorbing film is one of the true gems of the Holmes adaptations.