The Hound of the Baskervilles (1972 film) The Hound of the Baskervilles (1972 film) The Hound of the Baskervilles is a 1972 American made-for-television mystery film directed by Barry Crane and starring Stewart Granger as Sherlock Holmes and Bernard Fox as Doctor Watson. The movie is based on Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes novel "The Hound of the Baskervilles". "The Hound of the Baskervilles" was the first American color version of the tale, and was produced by ABC-TV for their "ABC Movie of the Week". The production was one of three pilots for a series of television movies featuring literary sleuths with the others being Nick Carter
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959 film) episodes, two of which were a new interpretation of "The Hound of the Baskervilles", this time with Nigel Stock as Watson. Cushing was an aficionado of Sherlock Holmes and brought his knowledge to the project. It was Cushing's suggestion that the mantlepiece feature Holmes' correspondence transfixed to it with a jackknife as per the original stories. Filming took place on location at Chobham Common and Frensham Ponds, both in Surrey. "The Hound of the Baskervilles" has been very well received by critics. The film currently holds a 94% approval rating on movie review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes based on eleven