The Hound of the Baskervilles (1929 film) of the source material. The British-based American actor Carlyle Blackwell was hired to play Holmes, as he was "suitably Britannic". The film's sets were designed by the art director Willy Schiller. It was shot at the Staaken Studios in Berlin. The Hound of the Baskervilles (1929 film) The Hound of the Baskervilles (German: Der Hund von Baskerville) is a 1929 German silent mystery film directed by Richard Oswald and starring Carlyle Blackwell, Alexander Murski, Livio Pavanelli. The film is an adaptation of the Sherlock Holmes novel "The Hound of the Baskervilles" by Arthur Conan Doyle. It was the last Sherlock
The Hound of the Baskervilles of the Empty House" that Holmes had faked his own death. He was assisted with the plot by a 30-year-old "Daily Express" journalist named Bertram Fletcher Robinson (1870–1907). His ideas came from the legend of Richard Cabell (d.1677), of Brook Hall, in the parish of Buckfastleigh, Devon, which was the fundamental inspiration for the Baskerville tale of a hellish hound and a cursed country squire. Cabell's tomb survives in the village of Buckfastleigh. Squire Richard Cabell lived for hunting and was what in those days was described as a 'monstrously evil man'. He gained this reputation for, amongst other things,