The Hound of the Baskervilles (1932 film) The Hound of the Baskervilles (1932 film) The Hound of the Baskervilles is a 1932 British mystery film directed by Gareth Gundrey and starring John Stuart, Robert Rendel and Frederick Lloyd. It is based on the novel "The Hound of the Baskervilles" by Arthur Conan Doyle. Sherlock Holmes is called in to investigate a suspicious death on Dartmoor. It was made by Gainsborough Pictures. The novelist Edgar Wallace worked as a screenwriter. The very first 'talking picture' version of "The Hound of the Baskervilles", it had a budget of £25,000. On 28 February 1931 Lustleigh railway station, on the then-Great
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1983 film) the Baskervilles" were ultimately filmed before Granada Television's "Sherlock Holmes" series premiered in 1984. A proposed third film, "Hands of a Murderer" (originally entitled "The Prince of Crime") was eventually made with Edward Woodward as Sherlock Holmes and John Hillerman as Dr. John H. Watson. In an interview with "Scarlet Street", Ian Richardson explained: Denholm Elliot was case as Dr. Mortimer having previously portrayed Stapleton in the comedy spoof version of the Hound starring Dudley Moore and Peter Cook. He also appeared with "Hound" co-star Connie Booth in the spoof "The Strange Case of the End of Civilization as We