The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939)

Ce film (affiliate link) était le premier film de Sherlock Holmes avec Basil Rathbone dans le rôle de Holmes. Sidney Lanfield directed The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939) pour Twentieth-Century Fox. Nigel Bruce co-stars comme Dr. John Watson. Rathbone et Bruce joueraient Holmes et Watson dans treize films suivants, un de plus pour Twentieth-Century Fox et douze pour Universal Pictures.

This film is a pretty accurate retelling of the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle story. It has good performances by recognizable stars such as Wendy Barrie, Lionel Atwill and John Carradine.

Nigel Bruce plays Watson as a bumbling character, which is one of the reasons I like but don’t love the series. Selon la base de données Internet Movie, Bruce was typecast early on as a the bumbling English aristocrat. Bruce worked for a stockbroker before serving in World War I. He was injured and wheel chair bound but made a full recovery. Pendant des années,, he was part of the cricket club that also included Boris Karloff that introduced the sport to Hollywood.