The Hound of the Baskervilles (1921 film) The Hound of the Baskervilles (1921 film) The Hound of the Baskervilles is a 1921 British mystery film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Eille Norwood, Catina Campbell and Rex McDougall. It is based on the Sherlock Holmes novel "The Hound of the Baskervilles" by Arthur Conan Doyle. It was made by Stoll Pictures, Britain's largest film company at the time. Following the fifteen part "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" this was the first full length film starring Eille Norwood as Holmes and Hubert Willis as Dr. Watson. This was the second film version of "The Hound of the Baskervilles"
The Hound of the Baskervilles and sole heir, Sir Henry Baskerville, who is the new master of Baskerville Hall. The death was attributed to a heart attack, but Mortimer is suspicious, because Sir Charles died with an expression of horror on his face, and Mortimer noticed "the footprints of a gigantic hound" about 50 yards from where Sir Charles lay dead. The Baskerville family has supposedly been under a curse since the era of the English Civil War when ancestor Hugo Baskerville allegedly offered his soul to the devil for help in abducting a woman and was reportedly killed by a giant spectral hound. Sir