Dan Curtis - Dracula (1973) United Kingdom









Description

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Cast (Cast overview, first billed only)



Jack Palance ... Dracula

Simon Ward ... Arthur

Nigel Davenport ... Van Helsing

Pamela Brown ... Mrs. Westenra

Fiona Lewis ... Lucy

Penelope Horner ... Mina

Murray Brown ... Jonathan Harker

Virginia Wetherell ... Dracula's Wife (as Virginia Wetherall)

Barbara Lindley ... Dracula's Wife

Sarah Douglas ... Dracula's Wife

George Pravda ... Innkeeper

Hana Maria Pravda ... Innkeeper's Wife (as Hanna-Maria Pravda)

Reg Lye ... Zookeeper

Fred Stone ... Priest

Roy Spencer ... Whitby Inn Clerk



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Other fans of DARK SHADOWS will recognize the lost-love element as having come from Barnabas Collins' tragic situation in that series. It adds a magnificent new element to the Dracula story without diluting the original. Bob Cobert's music, also familiar to DARK SHADOWS fans, is the perfect accompaniment to the tale of the vampire count. I have watched this numerous times since it became available on tape.



The various film adaptations of DRACULA have covered probably most of the ways this can be interpreted, from implied sexual perversion (1931), raw sexuality (HORROR OF DRACULA), flagrant, swept-off-one's-feet romance (1979), to historical retrospective (1992), to modern revisionism (2000). This film takes elements of most of these in a neat TV package with an appropriately British supporting cast.



Watch every version anyway; Dracula is a unique addiction!