series Doc Martin in 2009. The un-named Priest in Dracula Has Risen From the Grave remains his most high profile character on film to date.
Ernst Muller arrives to find that all is not well in the town of Kleinenburg. A year on after the gruesome find in the church bell, he is shocked to find that the natives still hold a fear of the perpetrator Count Dracula. Finding the Priest nursing a whiskey in the local inn, he berates him and then takes him under his wing to help rid the villagers of their fears once and for all. The trek to the castle is long and laborious, but he has The Good Lord on his side even though his own disciple is waning and he has to make the rest of the trip himself. He reads the exorcism powerfully as he tries to blot out the horrors of the evils in the castle over the centuries. He fastens the giant golden crucifix to the castle doors. When he has finished, he returns to the village. Informed that the Priest has already returned home, The Monsignor decides that he must do the same. All is now well in the World. On his arrival home he is waited on and looked after by his sister Anna, whom he has looked after in turn as a boon to his dying brother. Her daughter, Maria is a beautiful addition to the family he never had and, now in the bloom of womanhood has taken a chaperone in a young man who is an enterprising student and earns money by working at the local bakery. But problems ensue when Maria arrives with her young man and he discovers that the boy is an atheist under his own roof. But he has a moral streak and deigns to leave before being thrown out head first. Left out of the action – as most elders are in the lives of young lovers – he is shocked one evening to see the black cloaked entity that is Dracula bending over his niece. Seeing his cross, the demon takes heel as the Monsignor ventures out over the rooftops in pursuit, his mind surely wondering how the vampire lives. Rounding a chimney, he recognizes the Priest, now under the beast’s control. How could this have happened? The castle was exorcised! Before answers are forthcoming, the Priest wields a rock like David, catching the omnipotent emissary on the forehead. As he scrambles back home to his sister, he neglects to mention in his delirium that it was his own disciple who swung the brick. Realizing that his very home is in danger from an incredible evil, The Monsignor turns to Maria’s young lover, Paul, and tells him that Dracula lives and only he has the power to destroy him. The young man is not well-versed in the Christian church, however, and turns up with friend, The Priest. Ernst Muller expires from his injuries as he looks on the face of his murderer knowing that he can only aid Paul in spirit to destroy the evil that holds his home in the grip of deadly terror.
Rupert Davis entered films in 1948 having formed a passion for the theatre whilst being held captive by the Nazis in the celebrated concentration camp known as Stalag Luft III, made famous by the movie The Great Escape in 1968. He appeared most notably as George Smiley in The Spy Who Came in From the Cold (1965) and carved out a memorable slice of TV history by starring as pipe-smoking sleuth Maigret (1960-1963). His genre films include The Brides of Fu Manchu (1968) and his most famous genre character of the Reverend Lowe who is savagely tortured and murdered by Vincent Price as The Witchfinder General (1968). Liverpudlian born, he died in London in 1976 aged 60.
Maria lives quietly with her mother and uncle in the quaint little village. She is a bright and beautiful girl who seems to have no outward hobbies, but is the apple of her mother’s eye since her father’s death. Taken in as a little girl by her kind and upstanding Uncle Ernst, she has blissfully passed her time remaining a dutiful daughter to her mother. Now, however, she has become serious in her affections regarding a young student, Paul, who works to earn money in the bakery situated in the
Ernst Muller arrives to find that all is not well in the town of Kleinenburg. A year on after the gruesome find in the church bell, he is shocked to find that the natives still hold a fear of the perpetrator Count Dracula. Finding the Priest nursing a whiskey in the local inn, he berates him and then takes him under his wing to help rid the villagers of their fears once and for all. The trek to the castle is long and laborious, but he has The Good Lord on his side even though his own disciple is waning and he has to make the rest of the trip himself. He reads the exorcism powerfully as he tries to blot out the horrors of the evils in the castle over the centuries. He fastens the giant golden crucifix to the castle doors. When he has finished, he returns to the village. Informed that the Priest has already returned home, The Monsignor decides that he must do the same. All is now well in the World. On his arrival home he is waited on and looked after by his sister Anna, whom he has looked after in turn as a boon to his dying brother. Her daughter, Maria is a beautiful addition to the family he never had and, now in the bloom of womanhood has taken a chaperone in a young man who is an enterprising student and earns money by working at the local bakery. But problems ensue when Maria arrives with her young man and he discovers that the boy is an atheist under his own roof. But he has a moral streak and deigns to leave before being thrown out head first. Left out of the action – as most elders are in the lives of young lovers – he is shocked one evening to see the black cloaked entity that is Dracula bending over his niece. Seeing his cross, the demon takes heel as the Monsignor ventures out over the rooftops in pursuit, his mind surely wondering how the vampire lives. Rounding a chimney, he recognizes the Priest, now under the beast’s control. How could this have happened? The castle was exorcised! Before answers are forthcoming, the Priest wields a rock like David, catching the omnipotent emissary on the forehead. As he scrambles back home to his sister, he neglects to mention in his delirium that it was his own disciple who swung the brick. Realizing that his very home is in danger from an incredible evil, The Monsignor turns to Maria’s young lover, Paul, and tells him that Dracula lives and only he has the power to destroy him. The young man is not well-versed in the Christian church, however, and turns up with friend, The Priest. Ernst Muller expires from his injuries as he looks on the face of his murderer knowing that he can only aid Paul in spirit to destroy the evil that holds his home in the grip of deadly terror.
Rupert Davis entered films in 1948 having formed a passion for the theatre whilst being held captive by the Nazis in the celebrated concentration camp known as Stalag Luft III, made famous by the movie The Great Escape in 1968. He appeared most notably as George Smiley in The Spy Who Came in From the Cold (1965) and carved out a memorable slice of TV history by starring as pipe-smoking sleuth Maigret (1960-1963). His genre films include The Brides of Fu Manchu (1968) and his most famous genre character of the Reverend Lowe who is savagely tortured and murdered by Vincent Price as The Witchfinder General (1968). Liverpudlian born, he died in London in 1976 aged 60.
Maria lives quietly with her mother and uncle in the quaint little village. She is a bright and beautiful girl who seems to have no outward hobbies, but is the apple of her mother’s eye since her father’s death. Taken in as a little girl by her kind and upstanding Uncle Ernst, she has blissfully passed her time remaining a dutiful daughter to her mother. Now, however, she has become serious in her affections regarding a young student, Paul, who works to earn money in the bakery situated in the
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