The Hound of the Baskervilles (1981 film)

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The Hound of the Baskervilles

Directed by	Igor Maslennikov
Produced by	Lenfilm
Written by	A. Conan Doyle (novel) Igor Maslennikov Yuri Veksler
Starring	Vasily Livanov Vitaly Solomin Borislav Brondukov
Music by	Vladimir Dashkevich
Cinematography	Dmitri Dolinin Vladimir Ilyin
Release date(s)	1981
Running time	147 min.
Country	U.S.A.
Language	Russian
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The Hound of the Baskervilles (Russian: Приключения Шерлока Холмса и доктора Ватсона: Собака Баскервилей) is a 1981 Soviet film adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle's novel of the same name. It was a third installment in the TV series about adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson. A potent streak of humour ran through the film as concerns references to traditional British customs and stereotypes, ensuring the film's popularity with several generations of Russophone viewers. Other remarkable features of this best entry in the series include excellent exterior shots which closely match the novel's setting in the Dartmoor marshland, as well as superior acting: apart from the famous Livanov - Solomin duo as Holmes an Watson, the film stars internationally acclaimed actor/director Nikita Mikhalkov as Sir Henry Baskerville and Russian movie legend Oleg Yankovsky as the villain Stapleton

[edit] 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
Evgeny Steblov as Dr. Mortimer

[edit] Trivia

In a brilliant comedic deviation from the source, the character of Sir Henry has a profound disdain for oatmeal, a fact which becomes a subject of several heated arguments with the butler Barrymore throughout the film. In additon, Barrymore is portrayed as a loud talker, which causes him to be constantly admonished by the nervous and jittery Sir Henry, - "...there are no deaf people in this house, Barrymore".