Lugosi: Hollywood's Dracula
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Actor: Harry Thomas, John Springer (II), Louise Currie, Robert Clarke, Robert WiseDVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Black & White, Color, Director's Cut, Full Screen, NTSC, Original recording remastered, Special Edition
Running Time: 120 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-08-01
Audience Rating: Unrated
Movie Reviews of Lugosi: Hollywood's Dracula
Movie Review: finally, an entertaining and detailed tribute to the man of mystery.
Summary: 5 Stars
i have waited for a documentary about horror legend bela lugosi for so long and now it's here on dvd for the first time. gary don rhodes has done a brilliant job.
i particularly like the background music that was selected for the programme and the early photos of the man himself(most of which were previously unseen i would say). all the highlights are here: lugosi's early theatre experiences, his world war one experiences and of course, his breakthrough role that would make his name - dracula.
the special features are plentiful: extra interviews along with those that were given by lugosi. only negative point here is the interview given by his last wife. talk about a cold fish: from the outset, it became rather obvious that she wasn't interested in making a contribution to the documentary. she didn't exactly go out of her way in expressing any love or respect for her late husband(what sort of marriage could they have had?). what with being so cold, disinterested and sometimes offensive, i'm surprised her "interview" made it to the dvd release at all! still, only a minor problem.
the other seperate interviews are much more interesting and insightful. the bonus footage of lugosi in a foreign short film is intriguing if rather brief. altogether, there must be at least another hour's worth of footage. the other dvd includes very good bonus radio performances and interviews that are a treasure for any lugosi fan.
i just hope fellow horror legend boris karloff is given the same treatment in time to come.
Summary of Lugosi: Hollywood's Dracula
Bela Lugosi and Dracula are inseparable images from the heyday of Hollywood. More than any other actor in film history, Lugosi is the master of the macabre, the king of the vampires, and the cult hero of horror movies. And yet he was also a man who fought in wars and revolutions, who married five times, and who mastered stagecraft and film arts in Hungary, Germany, and the United States. He remained an enigma in Hollywood even as his career dwindled into the weird worlds of drug abuse and filmmaker Ed Wood. Lugosi?s fusion with the famed vampire became more permanent than ever when he was buried in his Dracula cape in 1956. LUGOSI: HOLLYWOOD?S DRACULA unravels the truth behind the legendary star by interweaving rare film footage from 1918-1956, home movies, and previously-unseen photographs with narration by Lugosi costar Robert Clarke and Lugosi fan Rue McClanahan. Numerous on-camera interviews span family members like his son and widow, Academy Award-winning director Robert Wise, legendary film producer Howard W. Koch, and a host of Lugosi?s costars and personal friends.The film has won awards and accolades at film festivals and theatrical screenings across the globe. Film historian Michael H. Price, author of FORGOTTEN HORRORS, has proclaimed that "Gary Rhodes?s LUGOSI: HOLLYWOOD?S DRACULA is the first life-story to give Lugosi his generous due, to treat Lugosi as something greater than a martyr, and to mingle an academic thoroughness with an unabashed enthusiasm towards its troubled and majestic subject."
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