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Post by jno on Jun 8, 2017 8:01:50 GMT
Suggested by: billyfarmer Which is your favourite screen version of 'The Hound of the Baskervilles'? 1 1939 20th Century Fox film version - Basil Rathbone & Nigel Bruce 2 1959 Hammer film version - Peter Cushing & Andre Morell 3 1968 BBC TV Series - 2 part version - Peter Cushing & Nigel Stock 4 1982 - 4 part BBC TV version - Tom Baker & Terence Rigby 5 1983 - Animated Cartoon version - Peter O'Toole & Earle Cross (voices) 6 1983 TV Movie - Ian Richardson & Donald Churchill 7 1988 - Feature length episode of The Sherlock Holmes Granada series - Jeremy Brett & Edward Hardwicke 8 2000 TV Movie - Matt Frewer & Kenneth Welsh 9 2002 BBC TV version - Richard Roxburgh & Ian Hart 10 2012 - Episode of BBC TV Series - Benedict Cumberbatch & Martin Freeman PICK ONE ONLY! |
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Post by alf on Jun 8, 2017 10:49:01 GMT
Tricky one but I've gone for Hammer.I know which the worst one is
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Post by flyingsquad on Jun 8, 2017 12:26:36 GMT
I went with Hammer. I also like the 1982 Tom Baker serial and the 1983 Ian Richardson film. Jeremy Brett is my favourite Holmes but I didn't think much to his version. I much preferred his version of 'The Sign Of Four' with John Thaw.
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Post by Arch Stanton on Jun 8, 2017 13:26:07 GMT
Hammer.
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Post by billyfarmer on Jun 8, 2017 17:32:20 GMT
My favourite screen version of The Hound of the Baskervilles, is definitely the 1939 film version, starring Basil Rathbone (my favourite Movie Holmes) and Nigel Bruce, the film was very atmospheric, and had a great cast, including Richard Greene (Sir Henry Baskerville), Wendy Barrie (Beryl Stapleton), Lionel Atwill (Dr. James Mortimer), John Carradine (Barryman, the butler) and Morton Lowry (John, Jack Stapleton), the Hound (played by a Great Dane called Chief), was very frightening.
Like most screen versions of The Hound of the Baskervilles, there were differences from the Book, there was a spooky seance scene, and no Laura Lyons.
The 1939 film version of The Hound of the Baskervilles, was the first Sherlock Holmes film, I ever saw, in the 1980s, when BBC2 showed a season of all the Rathbone Holmes Movies.
My second favourite screen version of The Hound of the Baskervilles, is the 1959 Hammer film version, starring Peter Cushing (another one of my favourite Sherlock's) and Andre Morell, very atmospheric (just like the Rathbone Hound), and also a great cast, including Christopher Lee (Sir Henry Baskerville), Francis De Wolff (Dr Mortimer) and John Le Mesurier (Barrymore), differences from the Book, there was a scene down an old tin mine, no Beryl Stapleton, and (just like the Rathbone Hound) no Laura Lyons, the 1959 Hammer film version of The Hound of the Baskervilles, was the first Sherlock Holmes film, to be made in colour.
One of the most disappointing versions of The Hound of the Baskervilles (listed above), was the version (part of the Sherlock Holmes Granada series), starring Jeremy Brett and Edward Hardwicke, there were many things wrong with the Granada version, a low budget, which was caused by overspending on two episodes, of the second series of The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1988), a total lack of atmosphere, some poor casting, especially Kristoffer Tabori (Sir Henry Baskerville) and Neil Duncan (Dr. Mortimer), and an awful Hound, Jeremy Brett, later said he would have liked to have made The Hound of the Baskervilles, all over again, because he was very disappointed with the version, that Granada, had made.
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Post by jno on Jun 8, 2017 18:31:45 GMT
Great info as always billyfarmer!  |
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Post by pr1 on Jun 9, 2017 10:02:11 GMT
Fortunetly there has been more than one good version of this Sherlock Holmes classic. I voted for the Hammer version because Peter Cushing is my favorite Sherlock Holmes and I prefer it over the version he did for the BBC. The Basil Rathbone version is an extremely close second as my favorite.
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Post by billyfarmer on Jun 9, 2017 10:18:00 GMT
I have always liked the 1983 TV Movie version of The Hound of the Baskervilles, starring Ian Richardson and Donald Churchill, the Movie was very atmospheric, and had a very well known cast - Martin Shaw (Sir Henry Baskerville), Denholm Elliott (Dr Mortimer), Glynis Barber (Beryl Stapleton), Nicholas Clay (Jack Stapleton/Sir Hugo Baskerville), Edward Judd (Barrymore), Eleanor Bron (Mrs Barrymore), Connie Booth (Laura Lyons), Brian Blessed (Geoffrey Lyons), Ronald Lacey (Inspector Lestrade) and David Langton (Sir Charles Baskerville), the only setback in the cast, being Donald Churchill, who totally failed to take the role of Dr Watson, seriously.
Geoffrey Lyons, was a character, who never appeared in the Book, the character of Laura Lyons, was separated from her husband, in the Book, in one scene, Geoffrey Lyons, bends a poker in half (an idea, taken from the Sherlock Holmes story The Speckled Band, in which the character of Dr Grimesby Roylott, bent a poker in half, at 221B Baker Street), Holmes (Ian Richardson), straightens the poker back.
The Movie also featured some great locations, including Knightshayes Court - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knightshayes_Court which represented Baskerville Hall.
Ian Richardson, was perfect for the role of Sherlock Holmes, a shame he only played the part, twice, Ian Richardson, later played Dr. Joseph Bell (the inspiration for Sherlock Holmes methods), in the BBC series Murder Rooms: Mysteries of the Real Sherlock Holmes (2000-2001).
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Post by Portland Road on Jun 12, 2017 8:14:54 GMT
There was an interesting 1977 version with Peter Cook, Dudley Moore and Kenneth Williams.
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Post by Portland Road on Jun 16, 2017 7:25:24 GMT
I did see it, IIRC on TV in the late 90s. I don't remember it being great, but not terrible either.
Notable for being a rare (by the late 70s) appearance by Williams in anything other than a Carry-On.
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Post by billyfarmer on Jun 16, 2017 17:44:16 GMT
I have enjoyed watching the 1982 4 part BBC TV version of The Hound of the Baskervilles, more than once, on DVD, I thought Tom Baker, was good in the role of Holmes, and Christopher Ravenscroft, was good in the role of the villain - Stapleton, was also good to see Caroline John (Liz Shaw in Doctor Who), in the role of Laura Lyons, the only setback was Terence Rigby, who I think was one of the most disappointing Dr Watson's, I have ever seen.
Hubert Rees, who played Inspector Lestrade, in the above version of The Hound of the Baskervilles, also played Dr Watson, in the BBC series The Baker Street Boys (1983).
I have seen the 2000 TV Movie version of The Hound of the Baskervilles, only once, I wasn't impressed with Matt Frewer, in the role of Holmes, but thought Kenneth Welsh, was a good Dr Watson.
I quite enjoyed watching the 2002 BBC TV version of The Hound of the Baskervilles, I thought Ian Hart, John Nettles and Richard E, Grant, were good in the roles of Dr Watson, Dr Mortimer and Jack Stapleton, I wasn't impressed with Richard Roxburgh, in the role of Holmes.
I thought the above version of The Hound of the Baskervilles, was very atmospheric, and also had good locations.
The 2002 BBC TV version of The Hound of the Baskervilles, also featured a seance scene, just like the 1939 film version, starring Basil Rathbone. |
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Post by jno on Jun 20, 2017 18:43:06 GMT
When Saturday night telly was superb ... Saturday July 15th 1972:  |
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Post by Arch Stanton on Jun 20, 2017 20:12:00 GMT
Fly forward to 2017 and this Saturday at 9pm you get
Casualty on BBC 1
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Casino Royale on ITV
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Post by billyfarmer on Jun 21, 2017 11:37:19 GMT
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Post by Arch Stanton on Jun 21, 2017 16:37:04 GMT
To be fair if you look at the TV listings for the last 30 years on BBC 1 for a Saturday at 9.00pm and it is always sodding 'Casualty'. Yeah, sad innit. I've never watched casualty really, I've seen odd episodes but that's it. Just another soap, set in a hospital. Saturday night tele is bl*ody awful for the most part.  |
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Post by jno on Jun 22, 2017 3:42:24 GMT
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Post by billyfarmer on Jun 22, 2017 10:09:09 GMT
A Radio Times listing from December 11th 1987 (the centenary year of Sherlock Holmes).   |
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Post by Arch Stanton on Jun 22, 2017 13:16:02 GMT
11th December 1987 was a Friday. Apparently. These days on BBC1 Friday at 6pm you get News followed by The One Show.  or BBC 2 gives us Eggheads and then a cookery program entitled: ' The Great Professional Master-Chef Bake-off' (or something!), about some individuals we don't know or care about, competing in a competition we don't know or care about........ Wait for it...... Eh? I don't get it.......... Why the ***k is this on every single night? It doesn't tell you about food or teach you how to cook! It's utterly pointless. For all I know they might not even be real cooks - I'm not sure I've ever seen any of them actually cook anything, ever. The camera just focusses on their sweating foreheads while they stir a pan or squirt jus on a plate, then afterwards while their food is judged (usually by a cabal made up of the most pretentious sounding ****s you've ever seen or heard!) the camera focusses on them again as they stand there looking pensive, arms folded, chewing a fingernail. Then it finishes until the next day. What utter cr@p!  Bring back Sherlock Holmes (or Charlie Chan) any day. |
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Post by billyfarmer on Jun 22, 2017 17:20:53 GMT
The Rathbone Holmes Movies, are sometimes shown on the film channels, on Sky, like I said (in another post, on this Thread), The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939), was the first Sherlock Holmes film, I ever saw, according to the following site - genome.ch.BBC.co.uk/fd4383d7c01647a596722e1ca026eef3 the date I first saw The Hound of the Baskervilles, was on January 8th 1982, early in the evening, on BBC Two, that was my introduction to Sherlock Holmes, and I have been a big Holmes fan, ever since. |
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Post by billyfarmer on Jul 6, 2017 10:19:52 GMT
Daily Mirror, July 7th 1939 - An advertisement, for Cinema screenings of the 1939 film version of The Hound of the Baskervilles.  |
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Post by Portland Road on Jul 10, 2017 7:41:55 GMT
Great find Billy.
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Post by pr1 on Jul 10, 2017 13:32:20 GMT
That ad is great!
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Post by billyfarmer on Jul 11, 2017 17:03:32 GMT
The 2002 BBC TV version of The Hound of the Baskervilles (starring Richard Roxburgh and Ian Hart), can be seen tonight, on the Drama Channel (starting at 8.00pm).
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Post by I used to think I was a parrot on Jul 14, 2017 20:21:51 GMT
Wonderful poll!
I would say the 1959 film version with Peter Cushing. I like the end: "a muffin Watson".
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Post by gustav on Jul 26, 2017 19:47:23 GMT
Granada series remains authoritative for me.
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