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The Hound of the Baskervilles (Original photograph from the 1959 film)
by Arthur Conan Doyle (novel); Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Andre Morell (starring); Terence Fisher (director); Peter Bryan (screenwriter); Marla Landi, David Oxley (starring)
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About This Item
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists / Hammer Films, 1958. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1959 film, showing actor André Morell. With one provenance stamp on the verso. Included with the photograph are two mimeograph pages regarding captioning on stills from the film.
Based on the classic 1902 novel by Arthur Conan Doyle, the first adaptation of the novel to be filmed in color. Actor Peter Cushing would go on to reprise his role as the world's greatest detective in the 1965 BBC series "Sherlock Holmes," and in the 1984 television movie "The Masks of Death."
Set in Dartmoor and Devin, shot on location in Berkshire and Surrey.
10 x 8 inches. Near Fine.
Arrow 110. Weldon 1983.
Based on the classic 1902 novel by Arthur Conan Doyle, the first adaptation of the novel to be filmed in color. Actor Peter Cushing would go on to reprise his role as the world's greatest detective in the 1965 BBC series "Sherlock Holmes," and in the 1984 television movie "The Masks of Death."
Set in Dartmoor and Devin, shot on location in Berkshire and Surrey.
10 x 8 inches. Near Fine.
Arrow 110. Weldon 1983.
Synopsis
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh in 1859. After nine years in Jesuit schools, he went to Edinburgh University, receiving a degree in medicine in 1881. He then became an eye specialist in Southsea, with a distressing lack of success. Hoping to augment his income, he wrote his first story, A Study in Scarlet . His detective, Sherlock Holmes, was modeled in part after Dr. Joseph Bell of the Edinburgh Infirmary, a man with spectacular powers of observation, analysis, and inference. Conan Doyle may have been influenced also by his admiration for the neat plots of Gaboriau and for Poe’s detective, M. Dupin. After several rejections, the story was sold to a British publisher for £25, and thus was born the world’s best-known and most-loved fictional detective. Fifty-nine more Sherlock Holmes adventures followed. Once, wearying of Holmes, his creator killed him off, but was forced by popular demand to resurrect him. Sir Arthur—he had been knighted for this defense of the British cause in his The Great Boer War—became an ardent Spiritualist after the death of his son Kingsley, who had been wounded at the Somme in World War I. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle died in Sussex in 1930.
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- Seller
- Royal Books, Inc.
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- Seller's Inventory #
- 159862
- Title
- The Hound of the Baskervilles (Original photograph from the 1959 film)
- Author
- Arthur Conan Doyle (novel); Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Andre Morell (starring); Terence Fisher (director); Peter Bryan (screenwriter); Marla Landi, David Oxley (starring)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- United Artists / Hammer Films
- Place of Publication
- Beverly Hills, CA
- Date Published
- 1958
- Keywords
- Film Still Photographs | Photographs | 1950s Cinema | Hammer Films | Sherlockiana | Mystery and Crime
- Bookseller catalogs
- Film Still Photographs; Sherlockiana; Hammer Films; Photographs; Mystery and Crime;
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