The Hound of the Baskervilles (1981 film)

The Hound of the Baskervilles
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Russian	Собака Баскервилей
Directed by	Igor Maslennikov
Screenplay by	Igor Maslennikov Yuri Veksler
Based on	The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
Produced by	Lenfilm
Starring	Vasily Livanov Vitaly Solomin Rina Zelyonaya Borislav Brondukov Irina Kupchenko Nikita Mikhalkov
Cinematography	Dmitri Dolinin Vladimir Ilyin
Edited by	Lyudmila Obrazumova
Music by	Vladimir Dashkevich
Release date	1981 (1981)
Running time	147 minutes
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian

The Hound of the Baskervilles (Russian: Приключения Шерлока Холмса и доктора Ватсона: Собака Баскервилей) is a 1981 Soviet television film adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle's 1902 novel The Hound of the Baskervilles. It was the third instalment in the TV series about adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson.

Production

The film features an all-star cast: in addition to the famous Livanov-Solomin duo as Holmes and Watson, the film stars the internationally acclaimed actor/director Nikita Mikhalkov as Sir Henry Baskerville and the Russian movie legend Oleg Yankovsky as Jack Stapleton. The hound uses the simple but effective device of painting a skull on the dog's face.

Cast

• Vasily Livanov as Sherlock Holmes
• Vitaly Solomin as Dr. Watson
• Rina Zelyonaya as Mrs. Hudson
• Borislav Brondukov as Inspector Lestrade
• Irina Kupchenko as Beryl Stapleton
• Nikita Mikhalkov as Sir Henry Baskerville
• Alla Demidova as Laura Lyons
• Sergey Martinson as Mr. Frankland
• Oleg Yankovsky as Stapleton
• Aleksandr Adabashyan as Barrymore
• Svetlana Kryuchkova as Mrs. Barrymore
• Yevgeny Steblov as Dr. Mortimer

External links

• The Hound of the Baskervilles at IMDb
• The Hound of the Baskervilles at AllMovie
• A page dedicated to the series