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''The Hound Of The Baskervilles'' (1959) is an adaptation of the [[Literature/TheHoundOfTheBaskervilles original novel]] by Creator/SirArthurConanDoyle, produced by [[Film/HammerHorror Hammer Film Productions]]. Directed by Hammer regular Terrence Fisher it features Creator/PeterCushing as Sherlock Holmes, Andre Morrell as Dr. Watson, and Creator/ChristopherLee as Sir Henry Baskerville.
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''The Hound Of The Baskervilles'' (1959) is an adaptation of the [[Literature/TheHoundOfTheBaskervilles original novel]] by Creator/SirArthurConanDoyle, produced by [[Film/HammerHorror Hammer Film Productions]]. Directed by Hammer regular Terrence Fisher it features Creator/PeterCushing as Sherlock Holmes, Andre Morrell as Dr. Watson, and Creator/ChristopherLee as Sir Henry Baskerville.
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* SpidersAreScary: Sir Henry is petrified when a tarantula gets on him.
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* SpidersAreScary: Sir Henry is petrified when a tarantula gets on him.him.
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** The specific backstory of Stapleton from the book, namely that he's the son of Sir Charles's younger brother Roger and his backstory as a former schoolmaster is omitted.
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** The specific backstory of Stapleton from the book, namely that he's the son of Sir Charles's younger brother Roger and his backstory history as a former schoolmaster is omitted.
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* AdaptationalPersonalityChange: In the book Jack Staple put on a gregarious front playing the insect enthusiast with shades of CrazyJealousGuy. Here he's much more standoffish and grumpy in his role.
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** Barryman's book description as a middle aged man with a black beard is given to Dr. Mortimer.
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** The cut and paste warning letter Sir Henry received at his hotel
** The legend's details are altered somewhat with the girl Sir Hugo pursued being the daughter of one of his servants and Hugo murdering the girl himself at the ruins of an abbey rather than her dying from exhaustion under a pair of standing stones.
** Sir Charles' body was found at the abbey ruins rather than at the lane near his house.
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** Selden's body is mutilated in a apparent ritual sacrifice
* AgeLift: In the book, Stapleton was a young man of Sir Henry's age, here he's old enough to have a full grown daughter.
* DecompositeCharacter:
** Thanks to Stapleton's wife being dead, her story role of acting as a HoneyTrap for Sir Henry is given to her daughter here.
** Stapleton's interest in entomology is given instead to Frankland.
** Thanks to Stapleton's wife being dead, her story role of acting as a HoneyTrap for Sir Henry is given to her daughter here.
** Stapleton's interest in entomology is given instead to Frankland.
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** As usual Laura Lyon is omitted.
** As usual Laura Lyon is omitted.
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wife and his spaniel
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** As usual Laura
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** Sir Henry arrives from South Africa rather than Canada
* AdaptationExpansion: The film also begins with an extended prologue involving Hugo Baskerville and the vile acts he commits to (supposedly) bring a curse down upon the family.
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* AdaptationalNationality: Stapleton's wife is mentioned to have been Spanish rather than Costa Rican.
* AdaptationalVillainy: Beryl Stapleton's equivalent Stapleton's daughter Cecile is willingly involved with her father's scheme to murder Sir Henry and Sir Charles.
* AdaptationalWimp: Sir Henry suffers from a heart condition.
* CanonForeigner: Cecile Stapleton is not in the original book, serving as a stand-in for Beryl Stapleton.
* DeathByAdaptation:
* AdaptationalVillainy: Beryl Stapleton's equivalent Stapleton's daughter Cecile is willingly involved with her father's scheme to murder Sir Henry and Sir Charles.
* AdaptationalWimp: Sir Henry suffers from a heart condition.
* CanonForeigner: Cecile Stapleton is not in the original book, serving as a stand-in for Beryl Stapleton.
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* AdaptationalNationality: AdaptationalNationality:
** Sir Henry goes from being Canadian to being South African presumably so Christopher Lee could use his natural accent instead of a North American one.
** Stapleton's wife is mentioned to have been Spanish rather than Costa Rican.
* AdaptationalVillainy: Beryl Stapleton's equivalent Stapleton's daughter Cecile is willingly involved with her father's scheme to murder Sir Henry and SirCharles.
Charles, intentionally luring both Sir Henry (and before him, Sir Charles) to death.
* AdaptationalWimp: Sir Henry suffers from a heartcondition.condition he did not have in the book.
* CanonForeigner: Cecile Stapleton is not in the original book, serving as a stand-in for Beryl Stapleton.
*CanonForeigner: Cecile CharacterTics: Creator/PeterCushing's Holmes has a habit of raising his finger in exclamation. Creator/ChristopherLee would often tease him about it.
* CompositeCharacter:
** Cecille Stapleton's daughter combines Beryl Stapleton and Laura Lyon's roles.
** Stapleton's role as an entomologist isnot in the original book, serving as a stand-in for Beryl Stapleton.
given to Frankland.
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** Sir Henry goes from being Canadian to being South African presumably so Christopher Lee could use his natural accent instead of a North American one.
** Stapleton's wife is mentioned to have been Spanish rather than Costa Rican.
* AdaptationalVillainy: Beryl Stapleton's equivalent Stapleton's daughter Cecile is willingly involved with her father's scheme to murder Sir Henry and Sir
* AdaptationalWimp: Sir Henry suffers from a heart
* CanonForeigner: Cecile Stapleton is not in the original book, serving as a stand-in for Beryl Stapleton.
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* CompositeCharacter:
** Cecille Stapleton's daughter combines Beryl Stapleton and Laura Lyon's roles.
** Stapleton's role as an entomologist is
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* DestinationDefenestration: The film opens with Sir Hugo Baskerville throwing a hapless servant through a window at Baskerville Hall.
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** Stapleton's role as an entomologist is given to Frankland.
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* CompositeCharacter:
EvenEvilHasStandards:
**Cecille Stapleton's daughter combines Beryl In the prologue, Sir Hugo's entourage of drunken jerks are horrified when he calls for his hounds to be loosed upon the girl they intended to rape, who has escaped; apparently even boozed-up would-be rapists draw the line at having someone ripped to pieces by dogs (making the maniacal Hugo irredeemably evil by comparison).
** Stapletonand Laura Lyon's roles.
** Stapleton's role as an entomologist is given to Frankland.rescues Watson from the Grimpen Mire, implying he draws the line at letting a
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** Stapleton
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* MistakenIdentity: It's implied that Cecile mistook Watson for Sir Henry and tried to lure him to his death in Grimpen Mire.
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* MistakenIdentity: Stapleton initially mistakes Watson for Sir Henry. It's implied that Cecile mistook Watson for Sir Henry and tried to lure him to his death in Grimpen Mire.Mire.
* QuicksandSucks: Watson falls into the Great Grimpen Mire while following Cecile but gets rescued by Stapleton. Cecile herself falls in at the film's end and doesn't escape.
* QuicksandSucks: Watson falls into the Great Grimpen Mire while following Cecile but gets rescued by Stapleton. Cecile herself falls in at the film's end and doesn't escape.
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* AdandonedMine: An old tin mine shows up on Stapleton's property and Holmes gets briefly trapped after a cave-in. It's revealed that Stapleton was using the mine tunnels to hide the Hound.
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* AdaptationalJerkass: Dr. Mortimer is
* AdaptationalVillainy: Beryl Stapleton's equivalent Stapleton's daughter Cecile is willingly involved with her father's scheme to murder Sir Hery and Sir Charles.
* AdaptationalVillainy: Beryl Stapleton's equivalent Stapleton's daughter Cecile is willingly involved with her father's scheme to murder Sir Hery and Sir Charles.
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* AdandonedMine: An old tin mine shows up on Stapleton's property and Holmes gets briefly trapped after a cave-in. It's revealed that Stapleton was using the mine tunnels to hide the Hound.
* AdaptedOut:
** The warning letter Sir Henry received at his hotel
** Dr. Mortimer's wife
** As usual Laura Lyon is omitted.
** The role of Inspector Lestrade is cut
** The specific backstory of Stapleton from the book, namely that he's the son of Sir Charles's younger brother Roger and his backstory as a former schoolmaster is omitted.
* AdaptationDeviation: Quite a few
** Sir Henry arrives from South Africa rather than Canada
** There an a murder attempt on Sir Henry via poisonous spider while he's at the London hotel
** Selden's body is mutilated in a ritual sacrifice
** The revealing portrait is removed by Stapleton and concerns an inherited deformity rather than a family resemblance.
** The terror of the Hound is enhanced by use of a mask rather than luminescent prosperous.
* AdaptationalJerkass: Dr. Mortimeris
is more curt than his gregarious book counterpart to set him up as a potential suspect.
* AdaptationalNationality: Stapleton's wife is mentioned to have been Spanish rather than Costa Rican.
* AdaptationalVillainy: Beryl Stapleton's equivalent Stapleton's daughter Cecile is willingly involved with her father's scheme to murder SirHery Henry and Sir Charles.
* AdaptedOut:
** The warning letter Sir Henry received at his hotel
** Dr. Mortimer's wife
** As usual Laura Lyon is omitted.
** The role of Inspector Lestrade is cut
** The specific backstory of Stapleton from the book, namely that he's the son of Sir Charles's younger brother Roger and his backstory as a former schoolmaster is omitted.
* AdaptationDeviation: Quite a few
** Sir Henry arrives from South Africa rather than Canada
** There an a murder attempt on Sir Henry via poisonous spider while he's at the London hotel
** Selden's body is mutilated in a ritual sacrifice
** The revealing portrait is removed by Stapleton and concerns an inherited deformity rather than a family resemblance.
** The terror of the Hound is enhanced by use of a mask rather than luminescent prosperous.
* AdaptationalJerkass: Dr. Mortimer
* AdaptationalNationality: Stapleton's wife is mentioned to have been Spanish rather than Costa Rican.
* AdaptationalVillainy: Beryl Stapleton's equivalent Stapleton's daughter Cecile is willingly involved with her father's scheme to murder Sir
* CanonForeigner: Cecile Stapleton is not in the original book, serving as a stand-in for Beryl Stapleton.
* DeathByAdaptation:
** Beryl Stapleton as Stapleton's wife is mentioned as having died in the backstory
* DeathByAdaptation:
** Beryl Stapleton as Stapleton's wife is mentioned as having died in the backstory
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* DistantPrologue: The film open with a sequence telling the story of Hugo Baskerville.
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** Stapleton is shot by Watson and has his throat torn out by the Hound rather than
than his presumed death in the Grimpen Mire from the book.
* DistantPrologue: The filmopen opens with a sequence telling the story of Hugo Baskerville.Baskerville and his death.
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** Stapleton's role as an entomologist is given to Frankland.
* InNameOnly: Franklandhashas nothing in common with the litigious man of the book, being cast instead as a kindly bishop with an interest in entomology.
* KarmicDeath: Cecile Stapleton meets her end in Grimpen Mire, much like how she initially tried to kill Watson the same way.
* MistakenIdentity: It's implied that Cecile mistook Watson for Sir Henry and tried to lure him to his death in Grimpen Mire.
* RedRightHand: Both Sir Hugo and his descendant Stapleton have a webbed right hand.
* ScoobyDooHoax: Like the original novel, the legend of the Hound of the Baskervilles is used by Stapleton to terrify Sir Charles to death by use of a fake Hound.
* SpidersAreScary: Sir Henry is petrified when a tarantula gets on him.
** Stapleton's role as an entomologist is given to Frankland.
* InNameOnly: Frankland
* KarmicDeath: Cecile Stapleton meets her end in Grimpen Mire, much like how she initially tried to kill Watson the same way.
* MistakenIdentity: It's implied that Cecile mistook Watson for Sir Henry and tried to lure him to his death in Grimpen Mire.
* RedRightHand: Both Sir Hugo and his descendant Stapleton have a webbed right hand.
* ScoobyDooHoax: Like the original novel, the legend of the Hound of the Baskervilles is used by Stapleton to terrify Sir Charles to death by use of a fake Hound.
* SpidersAreScary: Sir Henry is petrified when a tarantula gets on him.
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''The Hound Of The Baskervilles'' (1959) is an adaptation of the [[Literature/TheHoundOfTheBaskervilles original novel]] by Creator/SirArthurConanDoyle, produced by [[Film/HammerHorror Hammer Film Productions]]. Directed by Hammer regular Terrence Fisher it features Creator/PeterCushing as Sherlock Holmes, Andre Morrell as Dr. Watson, and Creator/ChristopherLee as Sir Henry Baskerville.
The film follows the usual story, as Sherlock Holmes is hired to protect Sir Henry Baskerville from the mysterious family curse that seemingly claimed the life of his uncle.
Notably this was the first adaptation of the novel to be filmed in color. Cushing would reprise his role as Holmes for a BBC series.
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* AdaptationalJerkass: Dr. Mortimer is
* AdaptationalVillainy: Beryl Stapleton's equivalent Stapleton's daughter Cecile is willingly involved with her father's scheme to murder Sir Hery and Sir Charles.
* AdaptationalWimp: Sir Henry suffers from a heart condition.
* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation:
** In the prologue, the girl Hugo Baskerville kidnapped is stabbed to death by him rather than dying from exhaustion of the chase.
** Stapleton is shot by Watson and has his throat torn out by the Hound rather than
* DistantPrologue: The film open with a sequence telling the story of Hugo Baskerville.
* CompositeCharacter:
* InNameOnly: Frankland has
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''The Hound Of The Baskervilles'' (1959) is an adaptation of the [[Literature/TheHoundOfTheBaskervilles original novel]] by Creator/SirArthurConanDoyle, produced by [[Film/HammerHorror Hammer Film Productions]]. Directed by Hammer regular Terrence Fisher it features Creator/PeterCushing as Sherlock Holmes, Andre Morrell as Dr. Watson, and Creator/ChristopherLee as Sir Henry Baskerville.
The film follows the usual story, as Sherlock Holmes is hired to protect Sir Henry Baskerville from the mysterious family curse that seemingly claimed the life of his uncle.
Notably this was the first adaptation of the novel to be filmed in color. Cushing would reprise his role as Holmes for a BBC series.
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!!This Adaptation Contains Examples of
* AdaptationalJerkass: Dr. Mortimer is
* AdaptationalVillainy: Beryl Stapleton's equivalent Stapleton's daughter Cecile is willingly involved with her father's scheme to murder Sir Hery and Sir Charles.
* AdaptationalWimp: Sir Henry suffers from a heart condition.
* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation:
** In the prologue, the girl Hugo Baskerville kidnapped is stabbed to death by him rather than dying from exhaustion of the chase.
** Stapleton is shot by Watson and has his throat torn out by the Hound rather than
* DistantPrologue: The film open with a sequence telling the story of Hugo Baskerville.
* CompositeCharacter:
* InNameOnly: Frankland has
