1959 · hammer · mystery · holmes
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Directed by Terence Fisher1h 27m1959
When a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, detective Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate.
Our read: The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive hammer · mystery · holmes entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured hammer / mystery, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
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