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 Murder on the Links week passes which does not bring a 'detective' story from one quarter or another, and several of the popular magazines rely mainly on that commodity. Among the later cultivators of this anything but lonely furrow the name of Agatha Christie is well in the front. If she has not the touch of artistry which made "The Speckled Band" and "The Hound of the Baskervilles" things of real horror, she has an unusual gift of mechanical complication." The reviewer went on to compare the novel with "The Mysterious Affair at Styles" which they called, "a remarkable piece of work" but warned