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The Casebook Of Sherlock Holmes
“The Last Vampyre”
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Jeremy Brett, who probably would have taken one look at Robert Downey Jr’s Sherlock Holmes and called him a wally with a silly hat, proves his take on the Great Detective is the only one that matters in this feature-length adventure from 1993. An adaptation of the original Arthur Conan Doyle story “The Adventure Of The Sussex Vampire” – we don’t know why they renamed it and added a “Y”, either – it features a bucketload of good olde English folklore and superstition for our pipe-smoking hero to wade through.
The village of Lamberley has been experiencing a plethora of unexplained events, from the death of a baby to the paralysis of a family dog. The blame has fallen upon a man named Stockton (Roy Marsden), descended from a line of vampires according to local lore, but Holmes isn’t convinced that he’s a real vampire despite the evidence piling up around him. When Stockton is killed in an accident and, after his funeral, a young woman is found with two marks on her neck, it looks as though he’s risen from the dead…
He hasn’t, of course: the actions were merely the result of a young cad with a grudge and his poisoned arrows. Not very sporting, eh, chap?
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