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The Hound of the Baskervilles

USA 1972
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Stanley Kallis, Richard Irving (executive) for Universal/ABC
directed by Barry Crane
starring Stewart Granger, Bernard Fox, William Shatner, Anthony Zerbe, Sally Ann Howes, Jane Merrow, Ian Ireland, John Williams, Alan Caillou, Brendan Dillon, Arline Anderson, Liam Dunn, Michael St. Clair, Barry Bernard, Constance Cavendish, Arthur Malet, Karen Kondazian, Elaine Church, Jenifer Shaw, Terence Pushman, Eric Brotherson, Anthony Eldridge, Chuck Hicks, Ian Abercrombie
screenplay by Robert E.Thompson, based on the novel by Arthur Conan Doyle

Sherlock Holmes, Hound of the Baskervilles

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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Doctor Mortimer (Anthony Zerbe) hires Sherlock Holmes (Stewart Granger) and Doctor Watson (Bernard Fox) to play bodyguards to Lord Henry (Ian Ireland), heir to the Baskerville estate, after his uncle had died from the family curse, the attack of a wild, supposedly mythical dog. Of course, Holmes isn't one to just guard someone's life, so he soon starts to do a bit of a snooping around round the moors of Dartmoor, where the Baskerville estate is located. He seems to already have pieced together a considerable part of the puzzle - when he's suddenly summoned back to London, leaving it to Watson to guard Sir Henry.

Watson does some detective work of his own, but instead of finding the killer, the hound of the Baskervilles or whoever else, he only finds Seldon (Chuck Hicks), an escaped convict who just happens to be the brother of Baskerville's housekeeper (Karen Kondazian), and who is eventually killed in a freak dog attack.

Sir Henry meanwhile tries to get romantically involved with his neighbour Beryl Stapleton (Jane Merrow), but she seems under constant watch from her brother George (William Shatner).

Out of nowhere, Holmes returns to the scene, and from now on, he exclusively presents evidence that points to Stapleton as culprit, evidence that is only fortified when a portrait of one of Baskerville's ancestors is found that looks remarkably like him, unveiling him as a distant relation to Baskerville and the ultimate heir to the family fortune should Baskerville ever die. Oh, and Beryl turns out to be Stapleton's wife rather than his sister.

Now Holmes has his culprit but he still lacks the smoking gun, so he sees to it that Stapleton accepts an invitation to dinner at the Stapletons, then walks home through the moor - where he is most certainly attacked by the mythical Hound of the Baskervilles - but Holmes, Watson and their friend inspector Lestrade (Alan Caillou) lie in waiting to save Baskerville and mortally wound the hound, which turns out to be not a mythical beast at all but a dog trained to wreak havoc and kill the Baskervilles by Stapleton. The wounded animal though returns to his master and kills him - though I'm not absolutely sure why ...

 

To cast Stewart Granger as Sherlock Holmes sounds like a recipe for disaster, simply because his acting style, including all of his charm and self-irony, are gravely at odds with what one has learned to expect from Sherlock Holmes. In all fairness though, Granger does rather well - sure, he is no Sherlock Holmes and never will be, but he's likeable enough to pull off the role.

The film as a whole isn't much good though, basically it's rather badly written and gives none of the characters any time to develop, especially William Shatner as Stapleton gets hardly any screentime before being revealed as the murderer way too soon in the picture. Add to this rather low production values and disappointing studio sets standing in for the moor, plus an utterly uninspired direction, and you're left with rather little.

 

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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