The Hound of the Baskervilles is a 1939 American gothic mystery film[1] based on the 1902 Sherlock Holmes novel of the same name by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Directed by Sidney Lanfield, the film stars Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Dr. John Watson. Released by 20th Century Fox,[2] it is the first of fourteen Sherlock Holmes films produced between 1939 and 1946 starring Rathbone and Bruce.
Among the most-known cinematic adaptations of the novel,[3] the film co-stars Richard Greene as Henry Baskerville (who received top billing, as the studio was unsure of the potential of a film about Sherlock Holmes[3]) and Wendy Barrie as Beryl Stapleton.
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The Hound of the Baskervilles is 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.[4]
In 1889, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John H. Watson receive a visit from Dr. James Mortimer, who wishes to consult them before the arrival of Sir Henry Baskerville, the last of the Baskervilles, heir to the Baskerville estate in Devonshire. Dr Mortimer is anxious about letting Sir Henry go to Baskerville Hall, and talks about the events of the recent death of his best friend, Sir Charles Baskerville, Sir Henry's uncle. Although he was found dead in his garden from heart failure, Mortimer noticed the footprints of a gigantic hound. He tells the story of a supposed family curse, the legend of the Hound of the Baskervilles, a demonic dog that first killed Sir Hugo Baskerville several hundred years ago and is said to have caused the death of many Baskervilles in the region of Devonshire. Though Holmes dismisses the curse, he agrees to meet Sir Henry, who receives a message warning him to stay away from the moor. Holmes witnesses someone attempt to assassinate Sir Henry. Holmes asks Watson to go to Baskerville Hall along with Sir Henry, claiming that he is too busy to accompany them himself. The first night, Sir Henry and Watson discover Barryman, the butler, signalling from a window with a candle to someone on the moor. After unsuccessfully catching a man fleeing across the moor, Watson and Sir Henry are startled by hound like howls. The next day, Watson is suspicious of the neighbour Jack Stapleton, a local naturalist, while Sir Henry becomes attracted to Beryl Stapleton, the step-sister of Jack Stapleton.
Watson and Sir Henry attend a seance held by Mrs. Mortimer. In a trance, she asks, "What happened that night on the moor, Sir Charles?". They are troubled by hound-like-howls. Watson meets a crippled peddler, limping on each of his legs, and receives a message to come see him. The peddler reveals himself to be Holmes, having been on the moor all the time making his own investigation. The hound kills a man on the moor whom Holmes and Watson fear is Sir Henry, but turns out to be the man Barryman was signalling to; Holmes explains that it was a convicted murderer, who escaped from Dartmoor Prison, and was Mrs Barryman's brother, who had given him Sir Henry's clothes.
Stapleton kept a huge, half-starved, vicious dog trained to attack individual members of the Baskervilles after prolonged exposure to their scent. When the hound is finally sent to kill Sir Henry Baskerville, Holmes and Watson arrive to save him just in time, killing the hound. Stapleton traps Holmes down in the hound's underground kennel, and sends Watson on an errand to meet Holmes. Holmes cuts his way out of the kennel and returns to the hall and destroys the poison that Stapleton had just given to Sir Henry as a medication for his wounds. Holmes surmises that Stapleton is a Baskerville, who hopes to claim their vast fortune himself after removing all other members of the bloodline. Stapleton pulls a gun and flees. Holmes says ominously to Watson, "He won't get very far. I've posted constables along the roads and the only other way is across the Grimpen Mire." Holmes is praised for his work on the case, and he turns in.
In a contemporary review, the Monthly Film Bulletin described the film as an "excellent film version of the novel." noting that the film's elements "sustain the suspense until the exciting climax," and that "the atmosphere is extremely well contrived". Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce were praised for their roles, while "only Wendy Barrie seems lifeless as Beryl in a cast which is uniformly good."[6]
The Hound of the Baskervilles was the first of the fourteen Sherlock Holmes movies made with Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce, and the only one of the fourteen in which Rathbone did not receive top billing. Dr. Mortimer, a friend of the recently murdered Sir Charles Baskerville seeks help from Sherlock Holmes to protect young Sir Henry Baskerville, who has just arrived on a ship from Canada. Mortimer tells Holmes and Watson of the legend of the Hound of the Baskervilles, which has cursed every member of the family since 1650. Holmes pretends to scoff at the supposed danger and he tells Mortimer not to worry about an old legend. In reality he knows Sir Henry's life is in danger. Pretending to be busy in London, Holmes sends Watson to the Baskerville estate in Devonshire to protect Sir Henry. Holmes then goes to the moor in disguise, in order to investigate in anonymity.
Holmes appears as a peddler before Watson, Sir Henry and Miss Stapleton, and completely fools them. When Holmes has almost figured out the mystery, he removes his disguise, revealing himself to Watson. Watson is indignant when he realizes that Holmes has been there all the time, and didn't trust him enough to tell him! (Of course Watson has made a fool of himself by claiming to be the great detective Sherlock Holmes!) Holmes returns with Watson to Baskerville Hall to fill in some missing pieces to the puzzle. Even when Holmes has figured out who the murderer is, he cannot arrest him without evidence. Holmes says, "The only way is to catch him red-handed, to catch him in such a way that there's no escape, no alibi. And that means gambling with Sir Henry's life." Once again Holmes tells Sir Henry that he has nothing to fear, his troubles are over, and Holmes and Watson board a train headed for London. At the next stop, they disembark, take a train back and arrive at the moor just in the nick of time to save Sir Henry from being killed by the Hound. Holmes and Watson shoot the Hound dead. In the final scene, with nearly everyone present, Holmes explains how he figured out who the murderer and hound owner was. Feeling trapped, Stapleton pulls a gun on everyone, and then runs out of the house. Holmes does not give chase, explaining that the police are out in force on the roads, and the only other means of escape is across the deadly Grimpen Mire.
Worth to take an honored place in the hall of fame in a vault next to The Son of Frankenstein is this fine effort at phony horror. The smudge pots smouldered like mad for days, surely, to make the thickest drifting mists to date. Every angle of the bleak moor is filled with threat and papier mache boulders. The howling of the eerie hound is an happily spine-tingling as the screech of Dracula's bats and the roar of King Kong combined. And Basil Rathbone might have stepped directly out of the illustrations of Sherlock Holmes. It's grand, from the bumbling pomposity the Nigel Bruce gives to the loyal Watson to the sweet, blank apprehension that Wendy Barrie uses for the perfect heroine, and the manliness of the hero played by Richard Greene.
You may be put off by the assorted villain types scattered through the film (Lionel Atwill, John Carradine, Eily Malyon, E.E. Clive, Harry Cording and Beryl Mercer, for instance). But not Sherlock Holmes. He feels his way unerringly through the menacing cast, the drifting mists and the haunted mire to lay a trap for the ghostly hound that is ready to rend the throat of the heir to the Baskerville curse.
In spite of some of the differences mentioned above, The Hound of the Baskervilles remains one of my favorite Sherlock Holmes films, and it of course established Basil Rathbone as the definitive Sherlock Holmes. I especially like the first scene with Holmes and Watson in Baker Street. The dialogue is almost word for word the same as in the novel, and the chemistry between Rathbone and Nigel Bruce is perfect. the later Universal films often feature Nigel Bruce's interpretation of Watson as a bumbling idiot, which is so different from the character appearing in Conan Doyle's stories. But in this film Bruce is much less bumbling, and actually appears to be a capable friend and physician.
In the development of the plots, Richard Greene, who had lived in Canada, arrives in London to claim the title and estate left by his uncle, who had presumably died from heart failure. Lionel Atwill, the doctor who had attended the deceased, believing that he had been murdered, and fearing for Greene's safety, calls on Basil Rathbone (Sherlock Holmes) for his advice. Rathbone sends his assistant (Nigel Bruce) with Atwill and Greene, to act as protector, promising to follow within a few days. Instead, he goes there disguised as an old peddler, so as to carry on his investigation unhampered. Greene meets and falls in love with Wendy Barrie, a neighbor; they plan to marry. Every one in the neighborhood is mystified by the noise of a howling dog; being superstitious, they trace it to an old legend regarding Greene's ancestors, many of whom had met with violent deaths. While on his way home from Miss Barrie's, across the moors, Greene is set upon by a vicious dog. The timely arrival of Rathbone and Bruce saves his life; they kill the dog. Rathbone then proves that Miss Barrie's stepbrother, an unknown member of Greene's family, had committed the murder and had attempted to murder Greene in an effort to prove his claim to the estate; he admits it and, despite an effort to escape, he is arrested. With the threat of death lifted, Greene looks forward to a happy life with Miss Barrie. 152ee80cbc
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