The Hound of the Baskervilles (1978)

Director:

Paul Morrissey

Writers:

Peter Cook (screenplay), Dudley Moore (screenplay),

Stars:

Spike Milligan, Henry Woolf, Dudley Moore

1 nomination.

Cast

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
Joan Greenwood	...	Beryl Stapleton
Denholm Elliott	...	Stapleton

Storyline

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Plot Keywords:

private detective | supernatural | place name in title | nun | ghost | 

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Genres:

Comedy | Crime | Horror | Mystery

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Details

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Release Date:

November 1980 (USA)

Also Known As:

Der Hund von Baskerville

Company Credits

Production Co:

Michael White Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

85 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Cinematographer John Wilcox became terminally ill during production and was replaced by Dick Bush.

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Quotes

[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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Connections

Version of Sherlock Holmes: L'ultimo dei Baskerville - Seconda puntata (1968)

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Soundtracks

"Twelve String Ties"
(uncredited)
Music by John Churston (pseudonym of H.M. Farrar)
De Wolfe Music Ltd

User Reviews

Its camp & stupid, i love to strike a happy medium.....

I'm amazed that most of the people who saw this film, thought it was terrible, i have to say, that this was the first film i ever saw of Cook & Moore, and i enjoyed it thoroughly, i know little about direction and all the technical sides to a film, but i know what makes me laugh, and this certainly did....

The scene where Holmes has a massage, Max Wall & Roy Kinner flashing, the classic one leg joke, and Moore playing Holmes's psychic mother, who call's Shelock 'Shirl'

How can people take a film so silly so serious.

This film turned me into a Cook & Moore fan, it cant be that bad...

Watch without prejudice!!