Help With A Hound Of The Baskervilles Film (please...)

[YeovilGlover]

Good Afternoon all,

 

This is my first post, so please excuse my stupidity but I need some help with a version of The Hound Of The Baskervilles.

 

A colleague at work remembers a black and white version of the film, where she thinks that  Sherlock Holmes had black hair?

 

Also, she tells me that the hound is usually released from a cellar/hatch.  In this episode, she is sure that the hound is released from a stable?

 

Any help will make my working life easier and quieter.

 

Many thanks in advance!

[Carol the Dabbler]

Hello, Yeovilglover -- welcome to Sherlock Forum!  

 

That's actually an interesting question.  The Hound of the Baskervilles has reportedly been filmed more times than any other Conan Doyle story, so there's no obvious answer, but you've provided enough information that someone who is familiar with a number of Holmes movies should be able to answer it readily.  That "someone" is not me, but there are a number of people on this forum who are much more knowledgeable, so your question should be answered sooner or later.

 

We hope you enjoy it here!

 

[Bakerstreet Irregular]

Welcome to the Forum Yeovilglover! 

 

If done right, all Sherlock's should have dark hair and I think that they do, for the most part, since that is Doyle's description of him, that being said, in the Unaired Pilot of "A Study In Pink" I think they used  Cumberbatch's natural hair color which is blond. Now they dye it black. 

 

Being released from a stable? That might be a little trickier to track down, but I am sure some one can and will.

[Bakerstreet Irregular]

With over 20 versions of The Hound of the Baskervilles produced for TV and movies, well, they can release this beast from a lot of locations since some versions deviate from the canon more than others.

[Pawse]

Currently, there are 24 adaptations of The Hound Of The Baskervilles.

[Bakerstreet Irregular]

Wouldn't that be a grand marathon to collect all twenty four and watch them all back to back.

[Pawse]

Wouldn't that be a grand marathon to collect all twenty four and watch them all back to back.

True.

 

From 1914 to 1920, there were some from Germany; four parts: the first 3 from 1914 and fourth part from 1915. Plus the 1920 version.

 

1921, UK, Eille Norwood and Hubert Willis.

 

1929, Germany, Carlyle Blackwell and George Seroff.

 

1931, UK, Robert Rendel and Frederick Lloyd.

 

1937, Germany, Bruno Güttner and Fritz Odemar.

 

1939, USA, Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce.

 

1955, Germany, Wolf Ackva and Arnuff Schröder.

 

1959, UK, Peter Cushing and André Morell.

 

1968, UK (BBC TV), PeterCushing and Nigel Stock.

 

1971, USSR, Nikolay Volkov and Lev Krugliy.

 

1972, USA, Stewart Granger and Bernard Fox.

 

1978, UK, Peter Cook and Dudley Moore.

 

1981, USSR, Vasilij Livanov and Vitali Solomin.

 

1982, UK, Tom Baker and Terence Rigby.

 

1983, UK, Ian Richardson and Donald Churchill.

 

1983, Australia, Peter O'Toole and Earle Cross (voices only).

 

1988, UK, Jeremy Brett and Edward Hardwicke.

 

1998, UK, Clive Merrison and Michael Williams.

 

2000, Canada, Matt Frewer and Kenneth Walsh.

 

2002, UK, Richard Roxburgh and Ian Hart.

 

2012, UK, Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman.

 

2014, USA, Jonny Lee Miller and Lucy Liu.

 

That's all I've got.

 

[Bakerstreet Irregular]

Enough to start with don't you think?

[Convict13]

Wouldn't that be a grand marathon to collect all twenty four and watch them all back to back.

 

 

A wonderful way to spend a long weekend I would think.

[Carol the Dabbler]

1972, USA, Stewart Granger and Bernard Fox.

 

1978, UK, Peter Cook and Dudley Moore.

 

1982, UK, Tom Baker and Terence Rigby.

 

1983, Australia, Peter O'Toole and Earle Cross (voices only).

 

2000, Canada, Matt Frewer and Kenneth Walsh.

 

Now there are a few names I've never associated with Holmes and Watson!  (Though Cook and Moore presumably did it for laughs.)

 

[Bakerstreet Irregular]

I know a couple of versions were panned pretty badly by the critics.

[Pawse]

 

1972, USA, Stewart Granger and Bernard Fox.

 

1978, UK, Peter Cook and Dudley Moore.

 

1982, UK, Tom Baker and Terence Rigby.

 

1983, Australia, Peter O'Toole and Earle Cross (voices only).

 

2000, Canada, Matt Frewer and Kenneth Walsh.

Now there are a few names I've never associated with Holmes and Watson! (Though Cook and Moore presumably did it for laughs.)

I wish it was for laughs - I watched just 15 minutes and took the DVD out. Putting it bluntly, and I apologise, but it was just crap. Dudley Moore just ruined it.

[Bakerstreet Irregular]

The one with Tom Baker wasn't much better. Even now it gets mixed reviews and even Mr. Baker sees it as one of his less then stellar performances.

[Carol the Dabbler]

Now there are a few names I've never associated with Holmes and Watson! (Though Cook and Moore presumably did it for laughs.)

I wish it was for laughs - I watched just 15 minutes and took the DVD out. Putting it bluntly, and I apologise, but it was just crap. Durley Moore just ruined it.

Hmm, I see that Moore also reprised "Mr. Spiggot," a character borrowed from Beyond the Fringe.  And Dr. Mortimer was played by Terry-Thomas.  IMDb calls it a spoof, but sounds more like a farce to me.

 

The one with Tom Baker wasn't much better. Even now it gets mixed reviews and even Mr. Baker sees it as one of his less then stellar performances.

Well, at least Baker's version scores 6.8 on IMDb, well above Cook's 4.5.

 

[Pawse]

 

 

Now there are a few names I've never associated with Holmes and Watson! (Though Cook and Moore presumably did it for laughs.)

I wish it was for laughs - I watched just 15 minutes and took the DVD out. Putting it bluntly, and I apologise, but it was just crap. Dudley Moore just ruined it.

Hmm, I see that Moore also reprised "Mr. Spiggot," a character borrowed from Beyond the Fringe. And Dr. Mortimer was played by Terry-Thomas. IMDb calls it a spoof, but sounds more like a farce to me.

The one with Tom Baker wasn't much better. Even now it gets mixed reviews and even Mr. Baker sees it as one of his less then stellar performances.

Well, at least Baker's version scores 6.8 on IMDb, well above Cook's 4.5.

I've never seen Tom Baker's version, though I'd hope it was much better than Dudley Moore's Godawful voice...

[Bakerstreet Irregular]

There is a post on line somewhere where Baker and Cumberbatche's Sherlocks are compared. But the quality is so bad I can't hardly read it but it seems they do have a good many similarities. But then, I always did like Tom Baker.

[Pawse]

I like Tom Baker too, particularly when he played the Doctor in Doctor Who, from 1974 to 1981.

[Carol the Dabbler]

Oh yeah -- I love Tom Baker as The Doctor!  Don't recall seeing him in anything else where his character appealed to me nearly as much -- of course he sometimes plays bad guys, and I guess they're not supposed to appeal to me!

 

[Pawse]

I'll have to look on youtube for Tom Baker's version.

[Ruthyone]

Here a picture of Tom Baker as Sherlock Holmes and Terence Rigby as Watson......

 

[BlackButterfly]

In the 39 Rathbone one theres a hatch lifted to release the hound from an underground pit / den area that Holmes get trapped in .

But yes so many versions.