The Hound of the Baskervilles

1939 · TMDB 7.1

Directed by Sidney Lanfield

When a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, detective Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate.

Richard Greene Basil Rathbone Wendy Barrie Nigel Bruce Lionel Atwill John Carradine Barlowe Borland Beryl Mercer Morton Lowry Ralph Forbes E. E. Clive Eily Malyon

Director · Sidney Lanfield Writer · Ernest Pascal Cinematography · J. Peverell Marley Editor · Robert L. Simpson

Runtime: 80 min
Released: 1939-03-24
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Country: United States of America
Language: English
TMDB score: 7.1

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Tim Laws

2025-12-04

It's December, which means I, for reasons unknown, try to watch all the Basil Rathbone Sherlock Holmes films in order before Christmas Day and fail. But this is great. Rathbone is a wonderful Holmes. Bruce is a bumbling, buffoonish but likeable Watson. I love the bits in 221b Baker Street, the biggest "rooms" in London by all accounts. These houses are MASSIVE. And the London pavement kerbs...MASSIVE! Love American versions of Britain.