The Hound of the Baskervilles (2002)

Movie
German title	The dog of the Baskervilles
Original title	The Hound of the Baskervilles
Country of production	United Kingdom
original language	English
Publishing year	2002
length	100 minutes ; shortened: 91 minutes
Age rating	FSK 16
Rod
Director	David Attwood
script	Allan Cubitt
production	Christopher Hall
music	Rob Lane
camera	James Welland
cut	Paul Tothill
occupation
	Richard Roxburgh : Sherlock Holmes; Ian Hart : Dr. Watson; Richard E. Grant : Jack Stapleton; Matt Day : Sir Henry Baskerville; John Nettles : Dr. James Mortimer; Geraldine James : Mrs. Mortimer; Neve McIntosh : Beryl Stapleton; Ron Cook : John Barrymore; Liza Tarbuck : Mrs. Barrymore; Paul Kynman : Selden, the convict; Danny Webb : Inspector Lestrade;

The Hound of the Baskervilles (Original title: The Hound of the Baskervilles ) is a British television film from 2002 by director David Attwood for the BBC . The film is based on the novel The Dog of Baskerville by Arthur Conan Doyle with the characters Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson , played by Richard Roxburgh and Ian Hart .

action

Deviations from the novel

The action does not take place in October, but in December.
The walking stick dialogue at the beginning of the book is missing.
In the opening credits, Selden is on the run from two police officers who sink into the moor while chasing him and perish. As a convict, Selden got a tattoo on the back of his hand, from which Holmes recognizes that the deceased is not Sir Henry but the convict.
The dog from the legend does not kill Sir Hugo because he promised his soul to hell while hunting for a girl, but because his master was Sir Hugo's wife. She was killed by her husband because he thought she was cheating on him with someone else. The dog can therefore be seen in the ancestral gallery.
Sir Charles was having an affair with Beryl Stapleton.
Holmes takes cocaine even though he has a case to solve (the scene was cut from the German version).
Watson talks about Holmes during a dinner. These elements were used from A Study in Scarlet Red.
Stapleton calls the free-running dog with a whistle.
Watson is upset when he discovers that Holmes has secretly followed him and can no longer trust him.
Holmes breaks into Stapleton to investigate.
Holmes doesn't smoke a pipe, he smokes cigarettes.
Selden is wanted for the gruesome murder of his parents. The only reason he was not hanged at the time was that he was 16 at the time of the crime. Had he been caught after he broke out, he would have been executed.
Laura Lyons and Mr. Frankland do not appear, but an old, somewhat strange, talkative coachman.
The taxi driver is not questioned in a friendly manner or bribed with a shilling, but rudely brought to speak by Holmes with a walking stick.
The telegram to Baskerville Hall asking if Barrymore was in London does not appear.
Stapleton is not a butterfly hunter, but an archaeologist who digs up and exhibits the bones and shells of extinct animals. He covets Holmes' skull because, according to his own statement, it exceeds the size of a normal person by far.
Mrs. Mortimer conducts a spiritualistic session (séance). The scene was borrowed from the 1939 film adaptation . She asks the ghost of Sir Charles what he ran away from. When she describes the dog in a trance with a disguised voice, the monster appears at the window (as you learn later, called by the dog whistle from Stapleton).
Selden is caught by Sir Henry in the kitchen at Baskerville Hall, throws him to the ground and gets hold of a piece of meat before he faces the approaching Dr. Watson escapes through a window pane.
Dr. Watson could kill Selden with his revolver, but he doesn't because Selden is on the run, unarmed and with his back to him.
Barrymore uses a secret passage to give signals to his brother-in-law Selden at the window. His wife initially claims he is doing this because of an affair with another woman. Holmes reveals only after Selden's death that he was Mrs. Barrymore's brother and that the signals were aimed at him.
The school where the Stapletons used to work is no longer available.
Sir Henry does not get away with the shock in the end, but is bitten by the dog and needs emergency medical care.
Stapleton's motive is revenge for his father Rodger Baskerville, not just the acquisition of inheritance.
Stapleton hangs his wife when she refuses to remain his accomplice.
Jack Stapleton is led by Dr. Watson shot dead when he tried to shoot Holmes, who had sunk into the moor. Holmes must finally be rescued from the moor by Watson.

Based on other films

The film is based on older film adaptations in some deviations from the original book:

On the 1939 movie adaptation with Basil Rathbone : Both films begin with the judge's verdict on Sir Charles' death. The seance , in which all residents of Grimpens take part and during which Mrs. Mortimer (whose character does not exist in the book) tries to contact the dead Sir Charles, also appears in the 1939 version.
From a film adaptation from 1988 with Jeremy Brett , which was produced within the TV series Sherlock Holmes , the style of the landscape shots and the scene with the police officers on the platform were borrowed.

background

This is the only film version of the novel that bears the correct title Der Hund der Baskervilles in German-speaking countries .

The German version has been shortened considerably. A scene is missing in which Holmes' drug use is discussed. In addition, the opening scene with the testimony to the examining magistrate was cut by three minutes.

The television production, commissioned by the BBC , was produced by Tiger Aspect Productions .

Awards

The film was nominated for the 2003 BAFTA TV Award in the category Best Sound (Fiction / Entertainment) to Clive Copland, Paul Hamblin, Lee Crichlow and Beckie Ponting.