The Hound of Baskerville (1914)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The Baskerville Dog |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1914 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Rudolf Meinert |
| script | Richard Oswald |
| production | Jules Greenbaum |
| music | Joachim Bärenz |
| camera |
Werner Brandes Karl friend |
| occupation | |
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The Dog of Baskerville is the first film adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle's novel The Dog of Baskerville .
history
In 1907 Richard Oswald wrote a screenplay based on his play Der Hund von Baskerville - Detective Comedy in 4 Acts (1906), written with Julius Philipp , which in turn is based on the novel of the same name by Conan Doyle. Oswald's adaptations join other arrangements of the Sherlock Holmes - and Hund von Baskerville - material that were made in Germany during this period, such as the play Der Hund von Baskerville: Drama in Four Acts from the Scottish Highlands. Based on motifs from Poes and Dolles 'novellas by Ferdinand Bonn or Albert Bozenhard ' s Sherlock Holmes: Detective comedy in 4 acts based on Conan Doyle and [William] Gillette (1906) .
In 1914, Oswald worked as a script supervisor for Union Vitascope Studios in Berlin-Weißensee .
Detective novel adaptations were very successful in German cinemas at that time, so that Oswald was able to write a script based on The Dog of Baskerville .
In 1929 Richard Oswald directed another stand-alone adaptation of The Hound of Baskerville , the last Sherlock Holmes silent film starring Carlyle Blackwell as Sherlock Holmes.
production
Richard Oswald wrote the script and Rudolf Meinert was commissioned to direct. Alwin Neuss was cast as Sherlock Holmes. Neuss had previously played the role of the detective in the 1910 film The Million Testament . The Baskerville Hound was so successful that six sequels were produced.
| year | title | Director | Holmes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1914 | The Baskerville Hound , Part 1 | Rudolf Meinert | Alwin Neuss |
| 1914 | The Baskerville Hound, Part 2 - The Lonely House | Richard Oswald | |
| 1915 | The Hound of Baskerville, III. Part: The creepy room | ||
| 1915 | The Baskerville Dog, Part IV: The Mysterious Dog | ||
| 1915 | The dark castle | Willy Zeyn | Eugene Burg |
| 1920 | The house without a window | Erich Kaiser-Titz | |
| 1920 | Dr. MacDonald's Sanatorium |
Neuss played Holmes in the first four films and was replaced by Erich Kaiser-Titz in the last two films .
credentials
- ↑ a b c d e Alan Barnes: Sherlock Holmes on Screen . Reynolds & Hearn Ltd, 2002, ISBN 1-903111-04-8 , p. 75.
- ↑ Richard Oswald, Arthur Conan Doyle, Julius Philipp: The dog of Baskerville: detective comedy in 4 acts . Eduard Bloch, Berlin 1906, OCLC 846315831 .
- ↑ Albert Bozenhard, Arthur Doyle, William Gillette: Sherlock Holmes: Detective Comedy in 4 Acts after Conan Doyle and Gillette . A. Dec, Berlin 1905, OCLC 845888706 .
- ^ Matthew E. Bunson: Sherlockiana Encyclopedia . Macmillan, 1997, ISBN 0-02-861679-0 , p. 130.
- ^ Alan Barnes: Sherlock Holmes on Screen . Reynolds & Hearn Ltd, 2002, ISBN 1-903111-04-8 , pp. 74-75.
Web links
- The Hound of the Baskervilles in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The Baskerville Dog on silentera.com. Retrieved September 7, 2013.