The Hound of the Baskervilles was a film adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's 1902 Sherlock Holmes novel of the same name. The inspiration for choosing to review and watch this film was my sister buying me the complete works of Sherlock Holmes for Christmas.
The movie stars the excellent Peter Cushing, best known as Baron Frankenstein, Grand Moff Tarkin, and Abraham Van Helsing. Christopher Lee is best known for playing Count Dracula, Count Dooku, Francisco Scaramanga, and Saruman the White. The dependable theatre actor André Morell, the often villainous Francis de Wolff, and Italian actress Marla Landi.
The film's plot begins with Doctor Richard Mortimer asking Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson's help in investigating the death of his friend Sir Charles Baskerville.
