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 (1939 film) to the house and destroys the poison that Stapleton had just given to the wounded Baskerville. Stapleton pulls a gun and flees. Holmes says ominously, "He won't get very far. I've posted constables along the roads and the only other way is across the Grimpen Mire." Holmes is praised for his work on the case, and he turns in. The butler was named Barrymore in the novel, but because of the existence of the real-life John Barrymore of the Barrymore family theatrical dynasty, his name was changed to Barryman in the film. In a contemporary review, the "Monthly Film Bulletin"