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The Hound of the Baskervilles (1978)
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November 1980 (USA) moreUser Comments:
fairly lousy comedy moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Spike Milligan | ... | Policeman |
| Henry Woolf | ... | Shopkeeper |
| Josephine Tewson | ... | Nun |
| Prunella Scales | ... | Glynis |
| Jessie Matthews | ... | Mrs. Tinsdale |
| Lucy Griffiths | ... | Iris (as Lucy Griffith) |
| Dana Gillespie | ... | Mary Frankland |
| Roy Kinnear | ... | Selden the Axe Murderer |
| Kenneth Williams | ... | Sir Henry Baskerville |
| Max Wall | ... | Arthur Barrymore |
| Terry-Thomas | ... | Dr. Mortimer |
| Irene Handl | ... | Mrs. Barrymore |
| Hugh Griffith | ... | Frankland |
| Penelope Keith | ... | Massage Receptionist |
| Joan Greenwood | ... | Beryl Stapleton |
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[first lines]Nun: Monsieur le Doctor Watson, what is keeping Monsieur Holmes so long?
Doctor Watson: Oh, reassurez-vous yourselves sisters, your holy relic will be with you momentarily.
Nun: But we have been waiting almost one hour!
Doctor Watson: Mr. Holmes is a very busy man sister. Monsieur Holmes is an, erm, tres occupée sister.
Nun: But tomorrow is the festival of St Beryl, already thousands of blind cripples are flocking to the chapel hoping to kiss the relic. In the name of all the flocking blind cripples, I beseech you...
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A misguided attempt to present a comic parody of the Conan Doyle tale, with Peter Cook as Sherlock Holmes and Dudley Moore as Dr Watson. Moore also plays Holmes' mother (!) and in this guise, is possibly the best thing in the film. Otherwise there is a spoof of the spinning head in The Exorcist, Denholm Elliot and a constantly urinating dog, and lame excuses for ‘jokes' and ‘funny situations' which really – aren't.
Although it has one or two moments which provoke a smile, the original source material isn't such that it survives being tweaked to this extent. Perhaps not the point, but the rest of the inspiration for this turkey must have been written on the back of a postage stamp. Skip this and watch Bedazzled and Not Only … But Also instead.