Der Hund von Baskerville
- Alwin Neuss: Sherlock Holmes
- Friedrich Kühne: Stapleton
- Erwin Fichter: Henry Baskerville
- Andreas von Horn: Barrymore
The Hound of the Baskervilles is the first cinematic adaptation of the novel The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle.
History
1907 Richard Oswald wrote a screenplay in which he from The Hound of the Baskervilles: drama in four acts from the Scottish Highlands. Free motifs from Poe and Doyle's stories, a piece by Ferdinand Bonn, served.
Oswald worked in 1914 as a script supervisor for the Union Vita Scope Studios in Berlin- Weissensee.
Detective fiction films of that time were very successful so that Oswald was in German cinemas capable of a screenplay to The Hound of the Baskervilles to write based.
Production
Richard Oswald wrote the screenplay and Rudolf Meinert was tasked with directing. Alwin Neuss was occupied in Sherlock Holmes. Neuss had previously played the role of the detective in the movie The Million Testament of 1910. The Hound of the Baskervilles was so successful that six sequels were produced.
Neuss played in the first three films Holmes and was replaced for the last two films by Erich Kaiser- Titz.