HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES, THE (1939) Half sheet poster style A

Vintage original 22 x 28″ (55 x 70 cm) half sheet poster, style A, USA. Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Richard Greene, Wendy Barrie, Lionel Atwell, John Carradine, dir: Sidney Lanfield; Twentieth Century Fox. Mounted on heavy paper, fold lines and area under “BASKERVILLES” of the title touched-up. Some creasing after it was preserved and mounted at top left corner and diagonal crease near bottom left corner. Nice use of color and very bright, near fine.

The most famous movie team of Holmes and Watson were Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce, and this was their first. They were so popular they were asked to do a radio series while making the films over the next few years. This story had them dealing with a supernatural dog. That scary dog is present on the poster. Richard Green and Wendy Barrie appear in the silhouette of Rathbone’s Sherlock Holmes character.