Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce star in this 1939 adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's novel. Except for minor changes, the script is true to Doyle's enthralling mystery about a centuries-long curse against heirs to the Baskerville estate, situated within the haunting and deadly Dartmoor in the southwest of England.  With the arrival of a new master, Canadian Henry Baskerville, Holmes and Dr. Watson are called upon to solve the strange case of the "gigantic hound" that may be readying to savage the poor fellow.

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Hitchcock's first great romantic thriller is a prime example of the MacGuffin principle in action.  Richard Hannay is a Canadian tourist in London who becomes embroiled in a deadly conspiracy when a mysterious spy winds up murdered in his flat, and both the police and a secret organization wind up hot on his trail. With only a seemingly meaningless phrase ("the 39 steps"), a small Scottish town circled on a map, and a criminal mastermind identified by a missing finger as clues, quick-witted Hannay eludes police and spies as he works his way across the countryside to reveal the mystery and clear his name.

Friday, June 3

7:00pm   Cinema One