The Hound of the Baskervilles (1981 film)
The Hound of the Baskervilles Russian , English The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson The Hound of the Baskervilles is a 1981 Soviet film adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyles novel The Hound of the Baskervilles. It was the 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 films popularity with several generations of Russophone viewers. Other features of this best entry in the series include excellent exterior shots which closely match the novels setting in the Dartmoor marshland, as well as an allstar cast in addition to the famous Livanov Solomin duo as Holmes and Watson, the film stars the internationally acclaimed actordirector Nikita Mikhalkov as Sir Henry Baskerville and the Russian movie legend Oleg Yankovsky as Jack Stapleton.
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