The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939)
Directed by Sidney Lanfield
When a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, detective Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate.
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It is just a passing reference though and the darker themes linking to the paranormal (most famously tackled by Doyle in The Hound Of The Baskervilles) are heavily glossed over as well.
After all, there’s a reason why The Hound of the Baskervilles with its legendary hound from hell is the most filmed of all Holmes stories.
While it might not be a classic on par with such earlier Holmes film adventures as either the 1939 or 1959 versions of "The Hound of the Baskervilles" or the well-regarded British television starring Jeremy Brett, it's very enjoyable.
I liked what Peter Cushing did with the part in the Hammer films version of The Hound of the Baskervilles and even enjoyed Christopher Plummer's slightly more emotional Holmes in Bob Clark's underrated Murder By Decree.
With Robert Downey Jr. headlining as an equally brainy and physical Holmes, director Guy Ritchie has made an up-to-date movie without letting anything newfangled overwhelm Arthur Conan Doyle's beloved characters or the yarn -- which, it must be said, has as much in common with Dan Brown's latest potboiler The Lost Symbol than, say, The Hound of the Baskervilles .