The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939 film)

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The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939 film) is a classic mystery movie adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes story, widely known for starring Basil Rathbone in one of his most iconic portrayals of the famous detective.


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instanceOf Sherlock Holmes film
film
mystery film
adaptationOf Sherlock Holmes novel The Hound of the Baskervilles
basedOn The Hound of the Baskervilles NERFINISHED
basedOnWorkBy Arthur Conan Doyle
blackAndWhite true
cinematographer J. Peverell Marley
countryOfOrigin United States
director Sidney Lanfield NERFINISHED
distributor 20th Century Fox NERFINISHED
editor Robert L. Simpson NERFINISHED
era Golden Age of Hollywood
filmFormat 35 mm
genre detective film
mystery
hasIMDbPage https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031448/
hasTheme family curse
gothic horror elements
hasWikipediaPage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hound_of_the_Baskervilles_(1939_film)
mainCharacter Dr. John Watson NERFINISHED
Sherlock Holmes NERFINISHED
Sir Henry Baskerville
musicBy David Buttolph NERFINISHED
narrativeFocus investigation of mysterious deaths on the Baskerville estate
notableFor first Rathbone–Bruce Sherlock Holmes feature film
iconic portrayal of Sherlock Holmes by Basil Rathbone
originalLanguage English
partOfSeries Basil Rathbone Sherlock Holmes film series
portrays Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes
Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson
producer Darryl F. Zanuck
productionCompany 20th Century Fox NERFINISHED
releaseDate 1939-03-31
releaseYear 1939
runtimeMinutes 80
screenwriter Ernest Pascal NERFINISHED
setIn Dartmoor
England NERFINISHED
starring Basil Rathbone NERFINISHED
John Carradine
Lionel Atwill NERFINISHED
Nigel Bruce
Richard Greene
Wendy Barrie
timePeriodOfSetting Victorian era
title The Hound of the Baskervilles

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