The opening credits attribute the "original" story to a pair of plagiarists, suggesting they've only based their plot on the characters of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle but anyone can see the debt this eighth of the Basil Rathbone-Nigel Bruce Sherlock Holmes movies owes The Hound of the Baskervilles with its murder on the foggy moors committed by a phosphorescent monster; however, before you groan at having watched it all before, remember Basil Rathbone in black-and-white is Sidney Paget's illustrations come-to-life, and here Holmes - on the hunt for a villain as diabolical as any seen in cinema to 1944 - becomes involved in some deliciously creepy scenes including one so good it was used again by Scorsese in his Cape Fear 47 years later.
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