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The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959) A British nobleman (Christopher Lee!) is troubled by a family curse and the spectral beast which accompanies it. All seems hopeless, but not to worry, Sherlock Holmes is on the case. One of the best adaptations of one of Arthur Conan Doyle's best stories with Peter Cushing providing one of the best onscreen Sherlock Holmes. It's a shame this didn't do well enough to convince Hammer to turn it into a series but, alas, you take what you can get.
TIL: Modern interpreters of the character predictably try to claim Holmes as an atheist, however, the books strongly hinted Sherlock was a believer of some sort. The detective once mused, "Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers our desires, our food, are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its color are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers."
Freeze Frames #012: "Looking up into the night sky is looking into infinity — distance is incomprehensible and therefore meaningless" - Douglas Adams
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