O Cão dos Baskervilles

Título original: The Hound of the Baskervilles

1959
18
1 h 27 min

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Psychological Horror Whodunnit Horror Mystery

Um homem é ameaçado por uma maldição familiar em sua propriedade recém herdada, o detetive Sherlock Holmes é contratado para investigar.Um homem é ameaçado por uma maldição familiar em sua propriedade recém herdada, o detetive Sherlock Holmes é contratado para investigar.Um homem é ameaçado por uma maldição familiar em sua propriedade recém herdada, o detetive Sherlock Holmes é contratado para investigar.

Direção
- Terence Fisher
Roteiristas
- Arthur Conan Doyle
- Peter Bryan
Artistas

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6,9/10

13 mil

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Direção
- Terence Fisher
Roteiristas
- Arthur Conan Doyle
- Peter Bryan
Artistas

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Curiosidades
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.

Erros de gravação
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.)

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

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

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`Mr Holmes, they were the footprints of a giant hound.'

The 1939 Basil Rathbone/Nigel Bruce production may be the definitive version, but Hammer's sole 1959 attempt at Sherlock Holmes remains the most atmospheric colour remake.

Peter Cushing and Andre Morrell make a more than passable Holmes and Watson double-act, and the rest of the cast are just right although Christopher Lee always seemed too stiff as a goodie.

Jack Asher's evocative photography is the real delight. No other version has captured so beautifully the muted greens, browns and golds of Dartmoor in England's myth-laden west country. What a shame that modern film stocks seem to have lost the softer warmth of Fifties Technicolor.

Hammer, as you might expect, played up the horror elements of the 'hound of hell' legend a bit too crudely. But David Oxley, as the Baskerville scion who brings about the curse, deserves his place in Hammer's gallery of depraved aristocrats. Accompanied by a crash of thunder in the prologue, director Terence Fisher captures him in long shot at the top of the stairs, possessed with fury as he tells his drunken fellow revellers that the servant girl they had intended to rape has fled. A hushed reaction shot of the others, before Fisher cuts back to a medium shot of Oxted. `I have her!' His face lights up with demonical inspiration. `We'll set the pack on her.!'

Maybe it does rather fall between two genres, but this hugely enjoyable Hammer yarn has left a footprint in each.