The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Hound of the Baskervilles - Part 1

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Hound of the Baskervilles - Part 1 (1981) is the Soviet detective film you can watch online on iFILM. Sir Charles Baskerville turns up dead near his family estate, with the prints of an enormous dog in the mud beside him.

Terror is frozen on the dead man's face. An old curse said to haunt the Baskerville line is suddenly the talk of the county. The heir, Sir Henry, arrives at the bleak manor on the Dartmoor moors — played by Nikita Mikhalkov — and the servants' dread only deepens. Holmes (Vasily Livanov) and Watson (Vitaly Solomin) set out to separate folklore from a very human scheme.

Director Igor Maslennikov's third entry is widely held to be the best of the cycle. It nails British custom and dry wit, gives Rina Zelyonaya her wry Mrs. Hudson, and casts Oleg Yankovsky as the slippery Stapleton. The marsh exteriors match Conan Doyle's Grimpen Mire so closely the author might have recognized them. Stream The Hound of the Baskervilles - Part 1 (1981) online on iFILM.