When a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, detective Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate.
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🔍 Search on JustWatch →Fear lives in the details here — in the frame, in the silence, in the pauses between lines. The director knows how to keep the viewer in a state of readiness, muscles tensing on their own.
Worth watching for the atmosphere and the use of space. The ending may disappoint — genre is genre. But the journey there is well-crafted.
For fans of atmospheric horror where dread matters more than fright.
Director: Sidney Lanfield
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Viewing atmosphere: At night when it's dark outside. Better with someone — not because it's scary, but because there's something to discuss after.
Richard Greene
Sir Henry Baskerville
Basil Rathbone
Sherlock Holmes
Wendy Barrie
Beryl Stapleton
Nigel Bruce
Doctor John H. Watson
Lionel Atwill
Dr. James Mortimer
John Carradine
Barryman
Barlowe Borland
Frankland
Beryl Mercer
Mrs. Jennifer Mortimer
Morton Lowry
John 'Jack' Stapleton
Ralph Forbes
Sir Hugo Baskerville
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