The Hound of the Baskervilles (1972 film)

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The Hound of the Baskervilles
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Stewart Granger as Sherlock Holmes.
Genre Crime
Horror
Mystery
Based on The Hound of the Baskervilles
by Arthur Conan Doyle
Screenplay by Robert E. Thompson
Directed by Barry Crane
Starring Stewart Granger
Bernard Fox
William Shatner
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
Production
Executive producer Richard Irving
Producer Stanley Kallis
Cinematography Harry L. Wolf
Editor Bill Mosher
Running time74 minutes
Production company Universal Television
Original release
Network ABC
ReleaseFebruary 12, 1972 (1972-02-12)

The Hound of the Baskervilles is a 1972 American made-for-television horror mystery film directed by Barry Crane and starring Stewart Granger as Sherlock Holmes and Bernard Fox as Doctor Watson. The movie is based on Arthur Conan Doyle's 1902 Sherlock Holmes novel The Hound of the Baskervilles .

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Production

The Hound of the Baskervilles was the first American color version of the tale, [1] and was produced by ABC-TV for their ABC Movie of the Week . [2] The production was one of three pilots for a series of television movies featuring literary sleuths with the others being The Adventures of Nick Carter starring Robert Conrad, and A Very Missing Person with Eve Arden as Hildegarde Withers. [2] The production utilized sets from other productions, mainly horror films. [3]

Cast

Reception

Ratings were poor and reviews were bad [4] [5] which caused the proposed series of tele-films to be shelved. [5]

The Los Angeles Times called it "laborious, talky, often poorly staged and it suffers intermittently with show and tell direction" although it thought Granger and Fox were "quite acceptable" in their roles. [6]

References

  1. ↑ "The Hound of the Baskervilles". TCM. Archived from the original on December 2, 2020. Retrieved December 28, 2011.
  2. 1 2 Alan Barnes (2002). Sherlock Holmes on Screen. Reynolds & Hearn Ltd. p. 65. ISBN   1-903111-04-8.
  3. ↑ Peter Haining (1994). The Television Sherlock Holmes. Virgin Books. p. 71. ISBN   0-86369-793-3.
  4. ↑ Alan Barnes (2002). Sherlock Holmes on Screen. Reynolds & Hearn Ltd. p. 66. ISBN   1-903111-04-8.
  5. 1 2 Peter Haining (1994). The Television Sherlock Holmes. Virgin Books. pp. 71–72. ISBN   0-86369-793-3.
  6. ↑ Page, D. (February 12, 1972). "TV MOVIE REVIEW". Los Angeles Times. ProQuest   156839976.
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