 The film was so successful that Fox produced a sequel which appeared later in 1939.Interest in Holmes cooled at Fox, but Universal Pictures picked up the character, and twelve feature films were made between 1941 and 1944 for release until 1947, all of which co-starred Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson.The first two films, "The Hound of the Baskervilles" and "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" (both produced by Fox in 1939), were set in the late Victorian times of the original stories.