Count Dracula (BBC Mini-Series)

Count Dracula (BBC Mini-Series)

Count Dracula (BBC Mini-Series)
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Actor: Frank Finlay, Louis Jourdan, Susan Penhaligon
Brand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 150 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-09-25
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: BBC Warner

Movie Reviews of Count Dracula (BBC Mini-Series)

Movie Review: At Long Last
Summary: 5 Stars

I've been trying to get a copy of this video for several years but it was unavailable in the United States for some reason. In my humble opinion it is the best updated filming of the timeless horror story. The performances are superb, especially that grand old man of the theatre, Jack Shepherd. I am delighted that I finally own a copy that I can view with deliciousness and maliciousness each Hallowe'en. Thanks.

Summary of Count Dracula (BBC Mini-Series)

This fan favorite three-part series from the BBC is now available on DVD for the first time! Louis Jourdan stars as the deliciously blood-thirsty Count Dracula in this version of Bram Stoker's horror classic. Keeping close to the original novel, the series begins with Jonathan Harker visiting the Count in Transylvania to help him with preparations to move to England. It is in the Count's castle that Jonathan becomes a prisoner, and discovers Dracula's true nature. Many scenes shot on location -- such as the Gothic graveyard of London's Highgate Cemetery -- add extra atmosphere to an already powerful production.
Devotees of vampire cinema have long esteemed this heretofore hard-to-see adaptation of Bram Stoker's novel, made for BBC-TV in 1977. Count Dracula puts Louis Jourdan in the fangs and cape, in a version subtitled--and played as--a Gothic romance. This is one of those 1970s TV productions that use film for exteriors and video for the interiors, a tactic that increases the general sense of cheapness about the whole thing (although the location stuff is good, including scenes on the cliffs of Whitby, the port town where Dracula comes to visit England). With 150 minutes to play with, the production has more of Stoker than many film versions include, although there's still some shuffling of the original. It's all a bit slow, and surprisingly cheesy at times, even with the occasional startling image: Dracula scooting bat-like down the side of his castle, or the vampire brides preparing to devour a baby (a scene cut from some subsequent showings of the series, but restored here). Frank Finlay makes a focused Van Helsing--a minimum of camping, thankfully--and Susan Penhaligon and Judi Bowker are respectively hot and cold as Lucy and Mina. Jourdan is effective, although he's off screen a lot and really gets his good bites in toward the end. You'll need some patience, but Jourdan drinks it dry. --Robert Horton

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