The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959)

The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959)

Dir. Terence Fisher

Peter Cushing played the role of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes many times on television but, alas, only once for HAMMER Studios. His ever-alert, energetic portrayal will surely annoy some folks but for me he’s the definitive film version.

So too is André Morell as Watson, a decent detective and a reliable friend, not the bumbling idiot of some other filmed versions.

It’s unmistakably HAMMER, the set-bound elegance is clear to see, and being adapted from a literary source as fine as their many horror works meant it was their equal in almost every way. The only downside is the depiction of the moor itself; it needed a more chilling, eerie mystery characterising it.