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Friday, 22 May 2015

The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959)

Peter Cushing played Sherlock Holmes many times but only once for Hammer Studios. His ever-alert, energetic portrayal will surely annoy some folks, but for me he’s the definitive version; so too is André Morell as Watson, a decent detective and reliable friend, not the bumbling idiot of some other works.
It’s unmistakably Hammer, the set-bound elegance is clear to see, and being adapted from a literary source as fine as their horror works meant it was their equal in almost every way. The only downside is the depiction of the moor itself. It needed a more chilling, eerie mystery characterising it.

4 creatures great and small out of 5

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