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 enlarge | Director: Brian Mills
Actors: Jeremy Brett, Edward Hardwicke, Fiona Gillies, Raymond Adamson, William Ilkley
Studio: Mpi Home Video
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  38 reviews
Sales Rank: 25295
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dvd-video, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: Unrated
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 120
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: 1792
ISBN: 0788604619
UPC: 030306179292
EAN: 9780788604614
ASIN: B00007G1WK
Theatrical Release Date: December 8, 1988
Release Date: January 28, 2003
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Desperately needs remastering - video quality suffers April 8, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I'm not wildly enthusiastic about this -- at 2 hours it seems to be a bit long. I'm not as critical as others are about the performance. Yes, Brett looks puffy and not quite well. Still, the performances are very good.
I just feel that people should know that this DVD offers image quality barely superior to VHS videotape. I know that better results are obtainable. The last Granada series of shorter Sherlock Holmes programs has excellent image quality. This is fuzzy, lacks contrast, it's just plain substandard.
Sooner or later they will remaster these with improved quality, and then you'll be stuck with the old, crummy first edition. But given the importance of the Brett Holmes series, they should have taken the trouble to get it right the first time.
 Better than the book March 28, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Jeremy Brett is Sherlock Holmes. In this movie, they made an important minor change, the spaniel is not killed by the hound. Otherwise, the acting, adaptation, atmosphere all make a great movie. I have this as well as the Basil Rathbone movie. I love them both, but this one is closer to the book and I think, even better.
The Super Hound July 5, 2006
Jeremy Brett and Edward Hardwick star in this very good version of Sir A.C.D's H.O.T.B. Jeremy Brett plays a fantastic Holmes. A part to always remember is the first appearance of Holmes in the film sitting at the breakfast table. Although the actor of Sir Henry Baskerville does not seem the same as in the book, the movie still is very good. I would recommend this version.
Entertaining, well acted, but lacks Gothic atmosphere. March 29, 2006
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
Although this newest version of "The Hound of the Baskervilles" lacks the Gothic atmosphere of the 1939 Basil Rathbone classic, it is well-acted,well-photographed, and more faithfiul to the original story than the Rathbone film. Despite my disappointment in the rather tame portrayal of the hound, and in the lack of a pervasive sense of preternatural horror, the film is entertaining enough that I have watched it three or four times in the six weeks since I purchased it.
Since Sherlock Holmes is absent for much of the film, Edward Hardwicke as Dr. Watson is given a chance to carry much of the load, and he does so ably. We see events largely through his eyes, and his own personality has sufficient depth to sustain our interest. Frankly, it is good to see more of Watson than we do in the shorter Holmes stories, and Hardwicke brings a gravitas to the role notably absent in the lovable but buffoon-like portrayal of Nigel Bruce.
Kristoffer Tabori is well-cast as the strong-willed, no-nonsense Sir Henry Baskerville, and Fiona Gillies plays a very attractive and sexy Beryl Stapleton. Ronald Pickup and Rosemary McHale are excellent as the suspicious butler, Barrymore, and his haunted wife.
Sherlock Holmes is forever associated with the murky streets of London, but I enjoy the episodes where he is out in the country, chasing his prey across the moor. This is one such episode, and a strength of this film is that it - unlike the 1939 version - was filmed on-location, giving us magnificent vistas of the bleak-but-beautiful Engish countryside.
This film omits the seance sequence that was added in to the 1939 version, but retains the character of Laura Lyons, who was dropped from the earlier film. Regrettably, this film drops the London assassination attempt early in the story, missing a much-needed dramatic element. But this version follows the original Doyle story in portraying Dr. Mortimer (played by Neil Duncan) as a young, somewhat distracted man, not the aging dabbler in the occult of the Rathbone version.
All in all, this movie somewhat disappoints as a thriller, but has enough visual appeal and good acting to sustain my interest. But it is really a hard call to determine who will like it and who won't. Hard-core horror buffs will probably find it too tame, hard-core Holmes fans will perhaps find it less than it could have been, but people somewhere in the middle might just like it.
Conan Doyle at His very Best March 9, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Having read all the written Holmes from the original Strand publications, complete with illustrations, it is remarkable the likeness of Jeremy Brett to the original , and how very close the TV series comes to the text of the stories. This is especially so in the "Baskerville" mystery. The mood of London in the nineteenth century, the Hansom cabs, the social mores, the ever present class system that permiated British society at that period of our history.
The skilled weaving of omniprescent Dartmoor into a story of transgenerational revenge. The characters are all real and could have been plucked from the present day, but they, the characters are all dressed in a language that seems no longer to exist in current writing.
Every person who considers themselves literate would serve themselves well by reading the complete works of Conan Doyle.
Is it any wonder that these novellas are still so popular in the present day?
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