The blue coat with 12 cloth-covered buttons on the bodice Julie Cox (Annabella Milbanke) wears in London is the same costume Ruby Bentall (Mary Bennet) wears at Longbourn in Lost in Austen (2008).
The Hound of the Baskervilles - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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Peter Cushing heavily researched his role prior to creating Holmes' character. He even provided his own costumes which accurately matched the famous Paget illustrations from the Sherlock Holmes series published in The Strand Magazine.
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Peter Cushing would often make amendments to his script. For example, dialogue where he inquires about how much he's getting paid was changed to "My professional charges are upon a fixed scale. I do not vary them, except when I remit them altogether."
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For the climactic scene between Sir Henry and the hound, Margaret Robinson revealed that "they duplicated the part of the set in miniature where the dog was to leap onto Sir Henry. A small boy named Robert was dressed to duplicate Sir Christopher Lee. The dog couldn't bear the sound of crumpled paper, and the idea was he would go straight for a prop man as he crumpled it. What we didn't know is that Colonel hated small boys, too. The prop man caught the dog in mid-air before he got to Robert."
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Sir Christopher Lee has starred in at least six Sir Arthur Conan Doyle filmed adaptations or related filmed productions. They are: The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959), Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace (1962), The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970), Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady (1991), Sherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria Falls (1992), and Orson Welles' Great Mysteries (1973).
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Sir Christopher Lee played Sherlock Holmes in two television movies in the 1990s.
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Sir Christopher Lee would often tease Peter Cushing about some of the tics he incorporated into his performances, raising his finger and enunciating his consonants.
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To this day, the movie is still released in a censored version for the British market. The scene where Sir Hugo Baskerville pushes a servant into a burning fireplace, remains trimmed of a few seconds. When the local peasant girl is caught and murdered by Sir Hugo, there were more camera shots of the character using his dagger. This scene also remains censored.
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Theatrical movie debut of Michael Hawkins (Lord Caphill).
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The Baskerville Hall set is a redress of that used for Castle Dracula in Horror of Dracula (1958), in which Sir Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing also starred.
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André Morell was one of the first movie portrayals to show Watson as a more than competent colleague of Holmes, rather than the lovable buffoon that Nigel Bruce had portrayed.
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Originally proposed by brief Hammer cohort Kenneth Hyman, this movie was planned to be the first in a series of many Sherlock Holmes movies starring Peter Cushing, produced by Hammer Films. The audience disapproved of a Hammer movie without any monsters and failed to turn up. The planned series was then dropped.
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The order of John Le Mesurier and Ewen Solon's names are reversed in the opening and closing cast credits.
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André Morell's wife Joan Greenwood appeared in The Hound of the Baskervilles (1978).
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It was Peter Cushing's suggestion that the mantlepiece feature Holmes' correspondence transfixed to it with a jackknife as per the original stories.
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According to various sources, Christopher Lee and Andre Morell didn't get along during filming and they usually avoided each other in between takes. However, Peter Cushing and Morell enjoyed working together again - after their collaboration on the BBC production "1984."
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The hound they used was a real dog called Colonel. On the set before the hound attacks Sir Christopher Lee's character Sir Henry Baskerville, they could not get Colonel to jump on Lee, so they started to "prod" him into action. Lee gave up and suddenly, Colonel lunged on him and bit right through one of his arms.
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Prior to appearing together in the Hammer movies, Peter Cushing and Sir Christopher Lee appeared together in Hamlet (1948) and Moulin Rouge (1952). The directors of those movies, Sir Laurence Olivier and John Huston, played Holmes' nemesis, Professor Moriarty, in The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976) and Sherlock Holmes in New York (1976).
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Some music, composed by James Bernard, was also used in Horror of Dracula (1958).
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Margaret Robinson was charged with creating a frightening mask for the dog to wear and added, "I made the mask out of rabbit fur, and the dog wouldn't allow anyone else to put the mask on him. He was a lovely dog, to me at least."
The Hound of the Baskervilles - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Hound of the Baskervilles - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Hound of the Baskervilles - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Hound of the Baskervilles - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Hound of the Baskervilles - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Hound of the Baskervilles - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Hound of the Baskervilles - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Hound of the Baskervilles - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Hound of the Baskervilles - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Hound of the Baskervilles - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Hound of the Baskervilles - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Hound of the Baskervilles - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Hound of the Baskervilles - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Hound of the Baskervilles - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Hound of the Baskervilles - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Hound of the Baskervilles - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Hound of the Baskervilles - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Hound of the Baskervilles - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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