The Hound of the Baskervilles (1932 film) and the development becomes tedious in the attempt to piece together the various phases of the mystery." "Picturegoer" said "this picture fails to do justice to Conan Doyle's thrilling Sherlock Holmes story." 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
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