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The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959)

Rate: 3
Viewed: 3/10

3/10: Can there be a more boring Sherlock Holmes film than the 1959 production of The Hound of the Baskervilles?

I read every story that was penned by Arthur Conan Doyle about the famed detective, and they were always thrilling. But the film never lives up to the promise. Although Peter Cushing bears an uncanny resemblance to what Sherlock Holmes might have looked like, his characterization isn't good enough.

The phrase "Elementary, my dear Watson" as heard in the movie was never uttered in any of the stories, and the plot is flat. In fact, Sherlock Holmes wasn't in the written story that much.

All in all, The Hound of the Baskervilles is boring although I prefer it over the tasteless Peter Cook-Dudley Moore version.

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