20th Century Fox production (the first in the series), with Richard Greene star billed as Sir Henry Baskerville over Basil Rathbone; pasty female lead Wendy Barrie is higher-billed than Nigel Bruce.
Brisk and faithful retelling by Ernest Pascal on foggy Dartmoor sets (Richard Day and Hans Peters, photographed by what sounds like a character in A Christmas Carol, Peverell Marley), with suitably shady goings-on and an appropriately nasty looking dog.
Best bit - Watson tells an itinerant old merchant that he's Sherlock Holmes - Holmes, stripping off his disguise, replies 'Then I must be Dr Watson!'
With Lionel Atwill, John Carradine (creepy butler), Barlowe Borland (Scottish litigious character), Beryl Mercer (clairvoyant), Morton Lowry, Ralph Forbes, E.E. Clive (cabbie).
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| 'A bittern? You must be joking!' (It's in the novel, though.) |
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| 'Take it away, and yourself with it!' |
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