Critical Reception
The Hound of the Baskervilles has been very well received by critics. The film currently holds a 100% approval rating on movie review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes based on eleven reviews.
Time Out called it "the best Sherlock Holmes film ever made, and one of Hammer's finest movies."
Peter Cushing's Holmes received mixed reviews at the time, with Films and Filming calling him an "impish, waspish, Wilde-ian Holmes", while The New York Herald Tribune stated "Peter Cushing is a forceful and eager Sherlock Holmes". André Morell's Watson has been praised as a far more accurate rendition of the character as envisioned by Arthur Conan Doyle, as opposed to the comic buffoon created by Nigel Bruce.
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