The Hound of the Baskervilles (1981 film)

The Hound of the Baskervilles (Приключения Шерлока Холмса и доктора Ватсона: Собака Баскервилей) is a 1981 Soviet television film adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle's 1902 novel The Hound of the Baskervilles. It was the third instalment in the TV series about adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson.

Production
The film features an all-star cast: in addition to the famous Livanov-Solomin duo as Holmes and Watson, the film stars the internationally acclaimed actor/director Nikita Mikhalkov as Sir Henry Baskerville and the Russian movie legend Oleg Yankovsky as Jack Stapleton. The hound uses the simple but effective device of painting a skull on the dog's face.

Cast

 * Vasily Livanov as Sherlock Holmes
 * Vitaly Solomin as Dr. Watson
 * Rina Zelyonaya as Mrs. Hudson
 * Borislav Brondukov as Inspector Lestrade
 * Irina Kupchenko as Beryl Stapleton
 * Nikita Mikhalkov as Sir Henry Baskerville
 * Alla Demidova as Laura Lyons
 * Sergey Martinson as Mr. Frankland
 * Oleg Yankovsky as Stapleton
 * Aleksandr Adabashyan as Barrymore
 * Svetlana Kryuchkova as Mrs. Barrymore
 * Yevgeny Steblov as Dr. Mortimer