The Hound of the Baskervilles Certificate: 
- Duration:
- 80 mins
- Year produced:
- 1939
- Director:
- Sidney Lanfield
- Cast:
- Basil Rathbone
- Richard Greene
- Wendy Barrie
Arthur Conan Doyle’s much-loved stories about genius detective Sherlock Holmes have been filmed many times, but in this classic mystery Basil Rathbone gives probably the definitive cinematic portrayal of Holmes – refined, restrained and impossibly clever. Here, Holmes and his faithful assistant, Dr Watson, are called upon to investigate a possible curse that sees the members of the wealthy Baskerville family killed by a giant – and ghostly – dog at their ancestral home.
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Fascinating facts
The Hound of the Baskervilles was the first film in which Basil Rathbone played Sherlock Holmes – he went on to do it 13 more times over his long career.