Sherlock Holmes - The Last Vampyre

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Summary: a godd video to sink your teeth into!
Review: I'm a staunch admirer of Sherlock Holmes Mysteries. Having said that, this was the first 'modern' adaptation of one of his stories that I had viewed. Jeremy Brett makes a wonderful Holmes. Roy Marsden shows his versatility as the 'Vampire'and is so different from his famous portrayal as Adam Dalgliesh. Lots of bearing of teeth and untimely deaths are found in this period costumed, beautifully produced show. It contains all the elements of fear, horror, and of course the unknown as the vampire weaves his spell upone the women in the show. On with the show! A good value buy and I recommend it for a good evenings entertainment.

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Summary: Overwrought
Review: In later years, the great Brett series was in decline with the loss of some apt scriptwriters and adaptions. Instead we get long, drawn-out versions of relatively simple stories, to the point that many of the characters seem annoying and the whole thing is exposed as ridiculous. Brett and Hawthorne are always good as Holmes and Watson, but their producers are not serving them well with this kind of script.

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Summary: A weak episode of a great series.
Review: Waxy, bloated and speaking in a nasal murmur, Jeremy Brett looks far more like a "vampyre" (to use this episode's overly cute spelling) than he does like Sherlock Holmes in this episode from this series' declining years. Conan Doyle's story wasn't much to begin with (his series declined, too) but at least it had some logic; this video version adds Roy Marsden as a suspected vampire and then has a devil of a time working him logically into the story. It would be maddening if it weren't so stupifyingly boring.

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Summary: Put a Stake Through It
Review: Waxy, bloated and speaking in a nasal murmur, Jeremy Brett looks far more like a "vampyre" (to use this episode's overly cute spelling) than he does like Sherlock Holmes in this episode from this series' declining years. Conan Doyle's story wasn't much to begin with (his series declined, too) but at least it had some logic; this video version adds Roy Marsden as a suspected vampire and then has a devil of a time working him logically into the story. It would be maddening if it weren't so stupifyingly boring.

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Summary: correction
Review: Woops, silly me, I wrote that last review and I didn't mean Hawthorne as Watson. His name is Hardwicke.