Hound Of The Baskervilles (1959) - Hound Of The Baskervilles (1959) - Blu-ray

Peter Cushing (Horror of Dracula, The Curse of Frankenstein, Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope) is a splendid Holmes (Daily Mirror) and "Andre Morell (Ben-Hur, The Bridge on the River Kwai, The Message) is the perfect Dr. Watson" (Daily Herald) in this terror-filled mystery classic co-starring horror legend Christopher Lee (The Wicker Man, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones). With it's "compelling acting and spooky cinematography" (Video Movie Guide), this "rattling good movie" (Newsweek) based on the novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle will keep you guessing, and gasping, until the final frame! A fiendish evil lurks beneath the mist-shrouded cliffs of England's fabled moors. In the form of a hellish hound, it feeds upon the trembling flesh of the heirs of Baskerville Hall. But before this savage beast can sink it's teeth into the newest lord of the manor, it must pit it's vicious fangs against the searing intellect of the most powerful foe it has ever encountered - the incomparable Sherlock Holmes! Francis de Wolff (From Russia with Love, Moby Dick, A Christmas Carol), Miles Malleson (Kind Hearts and Coronets, The Importance of Being Earnest), John Le Mesurier (The Italian Job, The Moon-Spinners), and Helen Gross (The Wicked Lady) round out the cast.