SuperHeroBooks - The Hound Of The Baskervilles [Non-US Format, PAL, Region 2, Import]

	List Price: Our Price: $26.98 Your Save: $ ( % ) Availability: Starring: Dudley Moore, Peter Cook, Roy Kinnear, Penelope Keith, Denholm Elliott Directed By: Paul Morrissey
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Audience Rating: G (General Audience) Binding: DVD Region Code: 2 Theatrical Release Date: 1977
Editorial Reviews: It could have been a stroke of genius reuniting Peter Cooke and Dudley Moore in a send-up of The Hound of the Baskervilles. In the event, director Paul Morrissey goes for Carry On-style humour: plenty of coarse word-play and camp innuendo, but little wit or subtlety. Cooke is a rather androgynous Sherlock Holmes, while Moore inexplicably attempts a Welsh accent to portray Dr Watson (his cameo as Holmes' mother is far less contrived). The support cast is a compendium of British comedy acting of the period--all now departed, and clearly relishing the one-liners and musical-hall farce. There are excellent contributions from Max Wall, Joan Greenwood (priceless in the seduction scene), and--in one of his last major screen appearances--Terry Thomas, as well as a winning "madame" from Penelope Keith. Don't expect even a free adaptation of Conan Doyle's novel, just let the humour take its enjoyably silly course.