Going down the road once again with Arthur Conan Doyle's story of the devil dog from hell. This is the version that introduced Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce as Holmes and Watson.
Rathbone's got the drill down as mister know it all Sherlock Holmes. Nigel Bruce hadn't descended into parody playing Dr Watson as the befuddled sidekick to Holmes. These guys are British and cool.
A real 1930's film, shot on a sound stage with the fog machines running overtime. This version of The Hound of the Baskervilles is more like a conventional 1930's murder mystery with everyone sitting around in a room while Holmes explains who did what to whom.
A nice short version of the classic story, Rathbone and Bruce are the whole show. You gotta love how they snuck that final line past the censors.
80 minutes.
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