The Hound of the Baskervilles 1959 N/R, 88 min. Genre: Mystery / Drama / Horror / Thriller
Director: Terence Fisher Cast: Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Andre Morell, Marla Landi, Miles Malleson, Francis De Wolff, Ewen Solon, John Le Mesurier, Sam Kydd, David Oxley, Helen Goss, Michael Hawkins, David Birks, Judi Moyens, Michael Mulcaster
Peter Cushing delivers an excellent performance as Sherlock Holmes coming to the aid of Sir Henry Baskerville (Christopher Lee) who is under the spell of an evil curse. His father has been killed under mysterious circumstances, and Sir Henry asks Holmes to investigate. Holmes sends his assistant, Dr. Watson (Andre Morell) to the Baskerville estate on the Devonshire moors to look for clues. Meanwhile, Holmes hides in the moors gathering information, and, almost too late, Watson and Holmes save Sir Henry from the fate that his father suffered.
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The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll 1960 N/R, 88 min. Genre: Horror / Thriller aka: House of Fright
Director: Terence Fisher Cast: Paul Massie, Dawn Addams, Christopher Lee, David Kossoff, Francis De Wolff, Norma Marla, Magda Miller, Oliver Reed, William Kendall, Helen Goss
Robert Louis Stevenson's classic story is altered to give an up-dated motive for the change of Dr. Jekyll into the sinister Mr. Hyde.
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| 1. The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959)
2. The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll (1960) aka: House of Fright
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