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 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