Dan Curtis' Dracula
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Actor: Fiona Lewis, Jack Palance, Nigel Davenport, Pamela Brown, Simon WardBrand: MPI
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 100 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-08-27
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Mpi Home Video
Movie Reviews of Dan Curtis' Dracula
Movie Review: Jack Palance is Count Dracula!
Summary: 5 Stars
I pulled this movie out of a hat because Jack Palance is one of my favorite actors, of stage and screen, Westerns, horror and science fiction. He worked with Dark Shadows creator Dan Curtis with script by Richard Matheson. Wow, can't go wrong with this crew!
I've read that Matheson's script was more faithful to Stoker's book than other Drac films in the past, complete with Van Helsing (Nigel Davenport) stakes & crosses, et al.! On air date was Feb 1974.
Much of the plot is the same as in the Universal pictures, at first. Harker goes to the castle, greeted by a horseman (followed by German Shepards, however) and Dracula decides on Carfax Abbey, when he discovers it's near where Lucy lives, his long lost love from across the centuries.
Harker takes a large chunk of the film. He attempts escape but is pinned down by three female vamps and they make a quick snack of him.
The finding and staking of Lucy was a bit quick and amateurish, some plot holes like, how did Van Helsing get there in the nick of time (while Lucy was munching on Arthur's neck) when he was out of town earlier.
Bonus material includes an interview by Jack Palance, (twenty years after production and he still has not watched it); Dan Curtis interview and European trailer.
The Jack Palance interview was quite enlightening and surprising. He said Dracula was the only character that "I ever played that frightened me." He said he was offered Dracula several times but that "once was enough!"
Dan Curtis created Dark Shadows and the sympathetic vampire Barnabas Collins of Collinwood in the late 1960s/early 1970s. He said he didn't like the reasoning for Stoker's Dracula character to go to England, and decided to inject a little bit of Dark Shadows into the mix: let's have the vampire discover that his lover of the 15th century is currently reincarnated and living in England.
Dan said he wanted to bring a sense of sympathy to the character. And in this he succeeds in spades (or in stakes).
Summary of Dan Curtis' Dracula
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