Product: Casebook of Sherlock Holmes, The {The Master Blackmailer (#1.7)} [VHS] (1993)
Rating: 3.0
Hmm.
This film was made around the start of this great series' rapid decline. It would have made a cracker of a good one-part episode, but somebody got the bright idea of dragging it out to two and filling it with unnecessary things. Most of the actual story is here, though the last humorous dialogue between Holmes and Lestrade(read the story "Charles Augustus Milverton") is curiously absent. Arty and enjoyable, if a bit much.