PLAZA THEATRE.

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 29, 3 August 1939, Page 15

PLAZA THEATRE.

"The Hound of the Baskervilles."

That matchless sleuth, Sherlock Holmes, is brought to vivid, life on the screen by the distinguished Basil Rath'bone, who shares top billing with Richard Greene and Wendy Barrie in 20th Century-Fox's thrilling production of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Hound of the Baskervilles," which opens tomorrow at the Plaza Theatre. The classic, one of literature's most shocking, spine-chilling mystery stories, has been transferred to celluloid with thrilling realism. For background the picture has perfectly reproduced the misty, fog-shrouded moor in England's Devonshire country, where a fiendish, ghostly hound is believed to wander, leaving a terrifying trail of horror and chilling the blood of the countryside with its unearthly howls. On Dartmoor's edge stands the gloomy old Baskerville, mansion, to which young Sir Henry Baskerville (Richard Greene) has come from Canada to claim his inheritance. It has been closed since the mysterious death of his Uncle Charles. Preoccupied with his whirlwind romance with his pretty neighbour, Beryl Stapleton (Wendy Barrie), Sir Henry laughs at the stories about the hound. But Dr. Mortimer (Lionel Atwill) and his spiritualist wife (Beryl Mercer) have clues to Sir Charles's murder that send them to the great Sherlock Holmes, and his equally famous aide, Dr. Watson (Nigel Bruce). Holmes enters the case and, after a series of spine-tingling developments, his amazing deductions result in the tracking down of the strange beast and the solution of the mystery of the moors, just in time to save Sir Henry from his uncle's* fate. "The Hound of the Baskervilles" is another feather in the cap of Darryl F. Zanuck. Sidney Lanfield did a grand job of direction from Ernest Pascal's splendid script and every member of the great cast, which also includes John Carradine, Barlowe Borland, Morton Lowry, and Ralph Forbes, turns in a first-rate performance. ]