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Wednesday 6 March 2013

'DON'T MOVE SIR HENRY, IF YOU VALUE YOUR LIFE!' PETER CUSHING CHRISTOPHER LEE: 'THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES (1959)'

CAST:
Peter Cushing (Sherlock Holmes), Andre Morell (Dr John Watson), Christopher Lee (Sir Henry Baskerville), Francis De Wolff (Dr Richard Mortimer), Marla Landi (Cecile Stapleton), Ewen Solon (Stapleton), Miles Malleson (Bishop Frankland), John Le Mesurier (Barrymore), David Oxley (Sir Hugo Baskerville), Helen Goss (Mrs Barrymore), Judi Moyens (Servant Girl)

PRODUCTION
Director – Terence Fisher, Screenplay – Peter Bryan, Based on the Novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Producer – Anthony Hinds, Photography – Jack Asher, Music – James Bernard, Music Conductor – John Hollingsworth, Special Effects – Sid Pearson, Makeup – Roy Ashton, Production Design – Bernard Robinson. Production Company – Hammer.

SYNOPSIS:
Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson receive a visit from the physician Richard Mortimer. Mortimer tells them the story of the curse that haunts the Baskerville family. This apparently resulted after the ancestor Sir Hugo Baskerville pursued and murdered a servant girl with his dogs, only to then be killed himself by a supernatural hound. The same ghostly hound is believed to have killed all the heirs to the Baskerville title, including most recently Sir Charles Baskerville. Holmes and Watson meet the new heir Sir Henry and accompany him to the Baskerville estate in Devon. There they determine mysterious happenings and great evil are afoot. Holmes tries to get to the bottom of the mystery and find whether the hound heard baying on the moors is a supernatural agency or a more mundane plot to murder Sir Henry.

1 comment:

  1. Peter Cushing/Christopher Lee are 1st class english actors with great performances they made in all there films The film with the Trancula spider was for real as Christopher hated spider a sort of phobia he had so if you see the face he pulled on The Hound of the Baskervilles spider screen that was for real face he pulled.

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