Hound Of The Baskervilles Essay

After reading The Hound of the Baskervilles novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, we watched the screenplay by Ernest Pascal. The screenplay was much different than the actual book because Pascal added and deleted many scenes from The Hound of the Baskervilles . Usually, screenplay companies, like Pascal’s do this to make the screenplay more exciting or give it a more dramatic flare. There were numerous scenes that were deleted or completely left out of the screenplay that was in the novel. For starters, in “The Hound of the Baskervilles,” the Pascal completely left out Laura Lyons, the poor, needy daughter of Mr. Frankland. In the middle of the story, Mr. Barrymore tells Sir Henry of a note he found in Sir Charles’ study. It was written to him, signed with the initials L.L., from Coombe Tracey. The letter read “Please, please, as you are a gentlemen, burn this letter, and be at the gate by 10 o'clock.” Once they had figured

The letter was made up of mostly newspaper clippings, except the word moor. That was because it was such an uncommon word that it would be simply too hard to find it in the London Times. The letter read “As you value your life or your reason keep away from the moor.” Holmes, as you well know, is a very good detective who perseveres in any case he gets into. He ordered a young boy, Cartwright to help him. Cartwright was sent to 23 different hotels for the remainings of the newspaper. Cartwright had no success in finding the newspaper. In the screenplay, the whole scene where they went to London was completely left out. In lieu of that, Watson was sent off to Baskerville Hall to investigate the murder and keep a close eye on Sir Henry. Likewise, that scene could have become yet another red-herring and could have kept the viewers even more hooked. I would have liked to see that scene added because, in the story, that part was very