(1943, 62:46) has a worn Astor Pictures Corporation reissue title card with some short-lived guitar string scratches; the bulk of the film unreels cleanly, though the audio sounds overly compressed by digital back- ground noise filtering. The 5.1 audio is just an unnecessary sell- ing point; fortunately, it’s not a tricky remix, but a more rounded delivery of the original mono and not at all offensive. Each movie has 10 chapters.


THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES


2002, BBC, DD-5.1/MA/16:9/ LB/ST/+, £15.99, 100m 15s, PAL DVD-2


By Kim Newman


There are far worse things than Bela Lugosi awaiting Anita Louise in THE GORILLA.


follow. THE APE MAN (1941, 63:43), with Lugosi as a simianized scientist determined to assert his human genes with purloined spi- nal fluid, has a windowboxed title card that corrects frame damage by freezing the image; it’s a sharp


if aged, slightly letterboxed pre- sentation with whites occasion- ally on the point of blooming and audio that sounds like it’s com- ing from an old Victrola record- ing. Joseph H. Lewis’ Monogram picture THE INVISIBLE GHOST


If any book didn’t need an- other adaptation, it would be THE HOUND OF THE BASKER- VILLES, but the BBC mounted it again as a Christmas treat for 2002—shifting the setting to the holiday season for the oc- casion. We can now only dis- tinguish HOUND by noting changes rung: this opens with


Jack Stapleton (Richard E. Grant) makes the mistake of venturing into Grimpen Mire in the BBC’s 2002 production of THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES.


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