Twenty years on, another version of Hound of the Baskervilles hit the silver screen, this time starring Andre Morell and Peter Cushing.

But the cost is so high that only places like the Cushing Academy or well endowed universities can afford it -the rest of us just end up with books in the dumpster.

This gave oil firms lots of incentive to build pipelines to Cushing: in recent months oil has poured into Cushing’s growing and labyrinthine storage facilities.