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* QuestionableCasting: The 2002 adaptation gets some bafflement for casting Creator/RichardRoxburgh as Holmes instead of Creator/RichardEGrant who was instead cast as Stapleton. The producers apparently thought him "too obvious", which had a couple of reviewers questioning how that was a bad thing. Its telling that Roxburgh's performance is generally considered one of the weaker elements of the film while Grant is considered one of the best versions of Stapleton.
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* QuestionableCasting: The 2002 adaptation gets some bafflement for casting Creator/RichardRoxburgh as Holmes instead of Creator/RichardEGrant who was instead cast as Stapleton. The producers apparently thought him "too obvious", which had a couple of reviewers questioning how that was a bad thing. Its It's telling that Roxburgh's performance is generally considered one of the weaker elements of the film while Grant is considered one of the best versions of Stapleton.
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* QuestionableCasting: The 2002 adaptation gets some bafflement for casting Creator/RichardRoxburgh as Holmes instead of Creator/RichardEGrant who was instead cast as Stapleton. The producers apparently thought him "too obvious", which had a couple of reviewers questioning how that was a bad thing. Its telling that Roxburgh's performance is generally considered one of the weaker elements of the film while Grant is considered one of the best versions of Stapleton.
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* RetroactiveRecognition: The Hammer version features André Morell who is perhaps best remembered nowadays for his portrayal of Professor Bernard Quatermass in the classic BBC serial ''[[{{Franchise/Quatermass}} Quatermass and the Pit]]''.
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** Original story: Jack Stapleton, real name [[BlackSheep Rodger Baskerville]], wins the trust of the Baskervilles family while using an abused, trained hound to simulate the dark legend of the Hound of the Baskervilles. [[FrightDeathtrap Terrifying family patriarch Charles to death]], Stapleton uses his own wife Beryl as a HoneyTrap for Charles's nephew Henry, viciously [[DomesticAbuse abusing Beryl]] to force her under his control. Murdering a convict with the Hound that he mistakes for Henry, Stapleton later beats Beryl to keep her from interference and sends his beast to murder Henry to [[InheritanceMurder claim the family estate]], even callously feeding the family doctor's little spaniel to the Hound and stopping at nothing to satisfy his cruel greed.
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** Original story: Jack Stapleton, real name [[BlackSheep Rodger Baskerville]], wins the trust of the Baskervilles family while using an abused, trained hound to simulate the dark legend of the Hound of the Baskervilles. [[FrightDeathtrap Terrifying family patriarch Charles to death]], Stapleton uses his own wife Beryl as a HoneyTrap for Charles's nephew Henry, viciously [[DomesticAbuse abusing Beryl]] to force her under his control. Murdering a convict with the Hound that he mistakes for Henry, Stapleton later beats Beryl to keep her from interference and sends his beast to murder Henry to [[InheritanceMurder claim the family estate]], even callously feeding the family doctor's little spaniel to the Hound and stopping at nothing to satisfy his cruel greed. It's almost as an afterthought that Holmes mentions he was most likely the guy who gunned down a page boy who interrupted a burglary.
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* NightmareFuel: Legend or not, [[spoiler: the hound itself]] is certainly horrific.
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* NightmareFuel: Legend or not, [[spoiler: the hound itself]] itself is certainly horrific.
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* RetroactiveRecognition: The Hammer version features André Morell who is perhaps best remembered nowadays for his portrayal of Professor Bernard Quatermass in the classic BBC serial ''[[{{Franchise/Quatermass}} Quatermass and the Pit]]''.
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* FranchiseOriginalSin: The 1939 ''Hound'' marks the start of Creator/NigelBruce 's tenure as Dr. Watson, a portrayal that gets quite a bit of flak for ingraining the image of Dr. Watson as a doddering old buffoon in the popular imagination. While Watson is played more for comic relief here, he's still a competent doctor and displays some observational skill both here and in the sequel ''Film/TheAdventuresOfSherlockHolmes1939.'' [[Film/TheBakerStreetDozen It was really the Universal films]] that would [[{{Flanderization}} flanderize]] him into the sort of TheLoad who would blow his nose on a clue and throw it away.
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* MomentOfAwesome: For the Hound itself, surprisingly, in the 2000 film adaptation. Having been abused by Stapleton (even being blinded so that it had to rely on scent to be a more effective killer) for god knows how long, it corners him at the edge of the Grimpen mire before turning on him, attacking the man who turned the poor dog into a monster and driving him into the mire where he drowns. Also could count as a TearJerker since the hound meets the same horrible fate as its abuser.
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* MomentOfAwesome: SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome: For the Hound itself, surprisingly, in the 2000 film adaptation. Having been abused by Stapleton (even being blinded so that it had to rely on scent to be a more effective killer) for god knows how long, it corners him at the edge of the Grimpen mire before turning on him, attacking the man who turned the poor dog into a monster and driving him into the mire where he drowns. Also could count as a TearJerker since the hound meets the same horrible fate as its abuser.
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* MomentOfAwesome: For the Hound itself, surprisingly, in the 2000 film adaptation. Having been abused by Stapleton (even being blinded so that it had to rely on scent to be a more effective killer) for god knows how long, it corners him at the edge of the Grimpen mire before turning on him, attacking the man who turned the poor dog into a monster and driving him into the mire where he drowns. Also could count as a TearJerker since the hound meets the same horrible fate as its abuser.
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* MomentOfAwesome: For the Hound itself, surprisingly, in the 2000 film adaptation. Having been abused by Stapleton (even being blinded so that it had to rely on scent to be a more effective killer) for god knows how long, it corners him at the edge of the Grimpen mire before turning on him, attacking the man who turned the poor dog into a monster and driving him into the mire where he drowns. Also could count as a TearJerker since the hound meets the same horrible fate as its abuser.
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* MomentOfAwesome: For the Hound itself, surprisingly, in the 2000 film adaptation. Having been abused by Stapleton (even being blinded so that it had to rely on scent to be a more effective killer) for god knows how long, it corners him at the edge of the Grimpen mire before turning on him, attacking the man who turned the poor dog into a monster and driving him into the mire where he drowns. Also could count as a TearJerker since the hound meets the same horrible fate as its abuser.
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** Original story: [[BigBad Jack Stapleton]], real name [[BlackSheep Rodger Baskerville]], wins the trust of the Baskervilles family while using an abused, trained hound to simulate the dark legend of the Hound of the Baskervilles. [[FrightDeathtrap Terrifying family patriarch Charles to death]], Stapleton uses his own wife Beryl as a HoneyTrap for Charles's nephew Henry, viciously [[DomesticAbuse abusing Beryl]] to force her under his control. Murdering a convict with the Hound that he mistakes for Henry, Stapleton later beats Beryl to keep her from interference and sends his beast to murder Henry to claim the family estate, even callously feeding the family doctor's little spaniel to the Hound and stopping at nothing to satisfy his cruel greed.
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** Original story: [[BigBad story: Jack Stapleton]], Stapleton, real name [[BlackSheep Rodger Baskerville]], wins the trust of the Baskervilles family while using an abused, trained hound to simulate the dark legend of the Hound of the Baskervilles. [[FrightDeathtrap Terrifying family patriarch Charles to death]], Stapleton uses his own wife Beryl as a HoneyTrap for Charles's nephew Henry, viciously [[DomesticAbuse abusing Beryl]] to force her under his control. Murdering a convict with the Hound that he mistakes for Henry, Stapleton later beats Beryl to keep her from interference and sends his beast to murder Henry to [[InheritanceMurder claim the family estate, estate]], even callously feeding the family doctor's little spaniel to the Hound and stopping at nothing to satisfy his cruel greed.
