Le chien des Baskerville

Titre original : The Hound of the Baskervilles

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Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, and Marla Landi in Le chien des Baskerville (1959)

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Psychological Horror Whodunnit Horror Mystery

L'enquêteur Sherlock Holmes est chargé d'enquêter sur un noble menacé par une malédiction familiale sur son domaine nouvellement hérité.L'enquêteur Sherlock Holmes est chargé d'enquêter sur un noble menacé par une malédiction familiale sur son domaine nouvellement hérité.L'enquêteur Sherlock Holmes est chargé d'enquêter sur un noble menacé par une malédiction familiale sur son domaine nouvellement hérité.

Réalisation
- Terence Fisher
Scénario
- Arthur Conan Doyle
- Peter Bryan
Casting principal

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6,9/10

13 k

MA NOTE

Réalisation
- Terence Fisher
Scénario
- Arthur Conan Doyle
- Peter Bryan
Casting principal

Voir les informations de production sur IMDbPro

Anecdotes
Originally proposed by brief Hammer cohort Kenneth Hyman, this movie was planned to be the first in a series of many Sherlock Holmes movies starring Peter Cushing, produced by Hammer Films. When the audiences disapproved of a Hammer movie without any monsters and failed to turn up in great numbers, the planned series was subsequently dropped.

Gaffes
In their discussion regarding the source of the tarantula used to attack Sir Henry, Watson asks Holmes how he knew the spider had not secreted itself with Sir Henry's luggage from South Africa and instead came from the collection of a local and eminent entomologist, Bishop Frankland. In classic form, Holmes says, "Elementary, my dear Watson, tarantulas are not from South Africa." He is wrong, as tarantulas, such as the baboon spider, are native to South Africa. A bit earlier in the film, Bishop Frankland asks if the tarantula in question had originated from one of the village. Here the expert was mistaken as tarantulas are not native to the countryside or villages of England. (To be fair, the good clergyman may have been trying to avoid admitting that a tarantula loaned to him by the London Zoo had gone missing.)

Citations
Sherlock Holmes: This, I think, is a two-pipe problem.

Connexions
Featured in Aweful Movies with Deadly Earnest: The Hound of the Baskervilles (1969)

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7/10

Sometimes you could count on Hammer to never ham it up for the cameras!

Hammer Studio's greatest stars in top form prove to this day that old-fashioned, relatively cheap yet eerie good films can look and work when quality pros are at work. Conan Doyle did not focus here on detective intrigue, but on a gloomy atmosphere, since the surroundings of the Baskerville estate over which the family curse prevailed favored a Gothic mood. The sequences with the tarantula thrown up on Sir Henry Baskerville (suffering from arachnophobia), Sherlock's visit to an abandoned mine collapsing through the efforts of some undetermined criminal, exemplify the fine pumping up of suspenseful strain. There are also some lightweight scenes - for example, with the participation of a good-natured bishop whose distraction almost costs the young aristocrat his life. Hitchcockian "Hammers", which included the director Terence Fisher, hardly used to claim the laurels of major artists, being more modestly content with the title of artisans. Be that as it may, the studio's default experience with the horror genre in its classical form enriched the Holmesian cult. One can't help comparing it to other (at this point about two and a half dozen!) attempts to adapt the famous story. The 1939 version was quite good by the way.