The Hound of the Baskervilles (2000 film) The Hound of the Baskervilles (2000 film) The Hound of the Baskervilles (2000) is a Canadian television film directed by Rodney Gibbons and starring Matt Frewer and Kenneth Welsh. The film is based on Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes novel of the same name. The first of four Holmes adaptations starring Frewer as Holmes, "The Hound of the Baskervilles" was followed by "The Sign of Four" in 2001, then "The Royal Scandal" (a blend of "A Scandal in Bohemia" and "The Bruce-Partington Plans") in 2001, with "The Case of the Whitechapel Vampire" (an original story) the final film released in
The Hound of the Baskervilles the like, as seen in the works of Henry Fielding and, later, Wilkie Collins. It incorporates five plots: the ostensible 'curse' story, the two red-herring subplots concerning Selden and the other stranger living on the moor, the actual events occurring to Baskerville as narrated by Watson, and the hidden plot to be discovered by Holmes. Doyle wrote that the novel was originally conceived as a straight 'Victorian creeper' (as seen in the works of J. Sheridan Le Fanu), with the idea of introducing Holmes as the "deus ex machina" only arising later. The "Hound of the Baskervilles" was first serialized