The legend of the Baskerville dog
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| Original title | The legend of the Baskerville dog |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1915 |
| length | 39 minutes |
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| Director | Richard Oswald |
| script | Richard Oswald |
| production | Jules Greenbaum |
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The legend of the dog of Baskerville is a medium-length, German silent film by Richard Oswald with Alwin Neuss in the role of Sherlock Holmes .
action
This film has very little to do with the crime stories of Conan Doyle and his master detective Sherlock Holmes. It is not based on any template from the British detective novel author. The story is much more like a costume film in the old English knightly milieu of the 16th century, in which the family of Baskerville is once again the focus of the action. The lustful knight Rodger, a libertine, chases after the virtuous Countess of Baskerville, but she rejects him.
Rodger is not satisfied with that and spreads fear and horror in the area in which he dresses an animal skin, like centuries later the dog of Baskerville. With this he wants to lay the wrong track for his later robbery of the countess. The count who stayed behind was worried about the dear wife and asked the ancestor of Sherlock Holmes to find his wife again. He'll soon track down the monster. The countess is freed and rescued, and knight Rodger has to face a vein court for his crimes to try the villain.
Production notes
The legend of the dog of Baskerville was made in the spring of 1915 in the Greenbaum film studio in Berlin-Weißensee and was censored on April 23, 1915. It is not known when the film, which turned out to be quite short at 809 meters across three acts, was released in the Reich. The first post-war presentation took place in July 1919 in the Berlin Passenger Theater.
useful information
The saga of the Dog of Baskerville was the second part of a four-part Dog of Baskerville film series that the producer Jules Greenbaum had made in 1914/15 with almost the same cast. The first part, the faithful adaptation of the Conan Doyle fabric of the same name , The Dog of Baskerville , was staged by Rudolf Meinert in 1914 . The following three further developments of this production were all implemented by Richard Oswald in 1915.