The Hound of the Baskervilles (1981 film) The Hound of the Baskervilles (1981 film) The Hound of the Baskervilles "(", is a 1981 Soviet television film adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle's novel "The Hound of the Baskervilles". It was the third installment in the TV series about adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson. The film features an all-star cast: in addition to the famous Livanov -Solomin duo as Holmes and Watson, the film stars the internationally acclaimed actor/director Nikita Mikhalkov as Sir Henry Baskerville and the Russian movie legend Oleg Yankovsky as Jack Stapleton. The hound uses the simple but effective device of painting a skull
The Fox and the Hound (novel) The Fox and the Hound (novel) The Fox and the Hound is a 1967 novel written by American novelist Daniel P. Mannix and illustrated by John Schoenherr. It follows the lives of Tod, a red fox raised by a human for the first year of his life, and Copper, a half-bloodhound dog owned by a local hunter, referred to as the Master. After Tod causes the death of the man's favorite hound, man and dog relentlessly hunt the fox, against the dual backdrops of a changing human world and Tod's normal life in hunting for food, seeking a mate, and