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3	''The Hound Of The Baskervilles'' is a 1959 film 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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5	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.
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7	Notably this was the first adaptation of the novel to be filmed in colors. Cushing would [[RoleReprise reprise the role of Holmes]] for a BBC series in 1968.
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9	!!This Adaptation Contains Examples of
10	* AbandonedMine: 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.
11	* AdaptedOut:
12	** The cut and paste warning letter Sir Henry received at his hotel
13	** Dr. Mortimer's wife and his spaniel
14	** As usual Laura Lyons is omitted.
15	** The role of Inspector Lestrade is cut
16	** The specific backstory of Stapleton from the book, namely that he's the son of Sir Charles's younger brother Roger and his history as a former schoolmaster is omitted.
17	* AdaptationDeviation: Quite a few
18	** 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.
19	** Sir Charles' body was found at the abbey ruins rather than at the lane near his house.
20	** There an a murder attempt on Sir Henry via poisonous spider while he's at the London hotel
21	** Selden's body is mutilated in a apparent ritual sacrifice
22	** The revealing portrait is removed by Stapleton and concerns an inherited deformity rather than a family resemblance.
23	** The terror of the Hound is enhanced by use of a mask rather than luminescent prosperous.
24	* 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.
25	* AdaptationalJerkass: Dr. Mortimer is more curt than his gregarious book counterpart to set him up as a potential suspect.
26	* AdaptationalNationality:
27	** 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.
28	** Stapleton's wife is mentioned to have been Spanish rather than Costa Rican.
29	* 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.
30	* AdaptationalVillainy: Beryl Stapleton's equivalent Stapleton's daughter Cecile is willingly involved with her father's scheme to murder Sir Henry and Sir Charles, intentionally luring both Sir Henry (and before him, Sir Charles) to death.
31	* AdaptationalWimp: Sir Henry suffers from a heart condition he did not have in the book.
32	* 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.
33	* CanonForeigner: Cecile Stapleton is not in the original book, serving as a stand-in for Beryl Stapleton.
34	* CharacterTics: Creator/PeterCushing's Holmes has a habit of raising his finger in exclamation. Creator/ChristopherLee would often tease him about it.
35	* CompositeCharacter:
36	** Cecille Stapleton's daughter combines Beryl Stapleton and Laura Lyon's roles.
37	** Stapleton's role as an entomologist is given to Frankland.
38	* DeathByAdaptation:
39	** Beryl Stapleton as Stapleton's wife is mentioned as having died in the backstory
40	* DecompositeCharacter:
41	** Thanks to Stapleton's wife being dead, her story role of acting as a HoneyTrap for Sir Henry is given to her daughter here.
42	** Stapleton's interest in entomology is given instead to Frankland.
43	** Barryman's book description as a middle aged man with a black beard is given to Dr. Mortimer.
44	* DestinationDefenestration: The film opens with Sir Hugo Baskerville throwing a hapless servant through a window at Baskerville Hall.
45	* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation:
46	** In the prologue, the girl Hugo Baskerville kidnapped is stabbed to death by him rather than dying from exhaustion of the chase.
47	** Stapleton is shot by Watson and has his throat torn out by the Hound rather than his presumed death in the Grimpen Mire from the book.
48	* DistantPrologue: The film opens with a sequence telling the story of Hugo Baskerville and his death.
49	* EvenEvilHasStandards:
50	** 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).
51	** Stapleton rescues Watson from the Grimpen Mire, implying he draws the line at letting a bystander perish in the mire.
52	* InNameOnly: Frankland has nothing in common with the litigious man of the book, being cast instead as a kindly bishop with an interest in entomology.
53	* KarmicDeath: Cecile Stapleton meets her end in Grimpen Mire, much like how she initially tried to kill Watson the same way.
54	* 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.
55	* 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.
56	* RedRightHand: Both Sir Hugo and his descendant Stapleton have a webbed right hand.
57	* 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.
58	* SpidersAreScary: Sir Henry is petrified when a tarantula gets on him.

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