The Hound of the Baskervilles (1972 film) The Hound of the Baskervilles (1972 film) The Hound of the Baskervilles is a 1972 American made-for-television 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 Sherlock Holmes novel "The Hound of the Baskervilles". "The Hound of the Baskervilles" was the first American color version of the tale, and was produced by ABC-TV for their "ABC Movie of the Week". The production was one of three pilots for a series of television movies featuring literary sleuths with the others being Nick Carter
The Hound of Florence The Hound of Florence The Hound of Florence: A Novel () is a 1923 novel written by Felix Salten. It is best known today for partly inspiring (and even mentioned in) the 1959 Walt Disney Pictures film, "The Shaggy Dog", as well as a sequel and remakes. The novel was first translated into English in 1930 by Huntley Paterson, and the translation has illustrations by Kurt Wiese. "The Hound of Florence" is an adventure story for young readers, set in early eighteenth-century Austria and Italy. The adolescent Lukas Grassi has lost his parents and lives in Vienna in great poverty,