The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939) review.

Sherlock Holmes - Basil Rathbone.
Dr. John Watson - Nigel Bruce.

This 1 and 20 minute episode was Basil Rathbone's first episode as the great detective, but did get manage too pull it off? Of course he did?

The over story is pretty simple. On the moors at Baskerville mysterious deaths are taking place and hence this get!s called the Baskerville curse.

The story starts with Sir Charles Basjerville running and eventually falls and has some kind of heart failure problem, and as a result of this, dies. Now, everyone watching this is probably convinced that Sir Charles is running away from some kind of Hound, hence the title of this episode.

Anyway, the coroner says that Sir Charles died as a result of heart failure. After that, Dr. Mortimer agrees with this, so where does he go? Well, there's only place a man in his situation can go, 221B Baker Street.

From, there, Mortimer convinces Holmes to help him protect Henry Baskerville, who is Sir Charles Baskerville's nephew.

The story then moves to Baskerville where Holmes sends Watson to accompany Mortimer and Baskerville, while Holmes 'stays at Baker Street'.

From there, the trio investigate a series of noises and sightings.

But, what I love about this story, is the fact Sherlock Holmes went to Baskerville after all, he was clever disguised as a tramp, which he pulled off very convincingly, even the accent he put on.

Anyway, the story concludes with Henry having a little walk on the moor, by this time, Holmes and Watson have figured it out and end up racing to save Henry. So, who is the killer? Barryman, he had brought the most vicious dog had could find and lock it in a undergoing hiding place on the moor, and it turns out that Barryman was the one that stole Henry's shoe from earlier in the story, so he goes to get the Hound and let's it sniff Henry s shoe, so it pick up Henry's scent. Barryman then releases the Hound and it goes to find Henry, meanwhile Holmes and Watson are still racing across the moor to save Henry.

Eventually, the Hound catches up to Henry, and they both have the best fight that has ever been made in silent movies, the director of the episode, does a clever thing where the episode keeps from Henry fighting the Hound to Holmes and Watson racing to save Henry, which they do.

After this, they all go back to the Baskerville house and Holmes does the famous scene where a detective sits everyone down and talks them through his solution.

Eventually, he reveals Barryman as the killer, but he gets away, but not for too long, when Holmes blows his whistle, which signals too all the police to catch Barryman.

So, the overall story was great. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle made good use of Holmes's skills.

The fight between Henry and the Hound looked convincing enough.

Overall, this is a fantastic story that you should definitely watch.

8/10.

Thank you for reading.

- MW.