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Release Date:
14 February 1931 (USA)
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Tagline:
The story of the strangest passion the world has ever known! more
Plot:
The ancient vampire Count Dracula arrives in England and begins to prey upon the virtuous young Mina. full summary | full synopsis
Awards:
1 win
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Carla Laemmle Book Signing At Larry Edmunds Book Store, Hollywood October 30
(From CinemaRetro. 27 October 2009, 7:04 AM, PDT)
Bela Lugosi And Boris Karloff: The Expanded Story Of A Haunting Collaboration (Book Review)
(From Fangoria. 20 October 2009, 1:50 AM, PDT)
(From CinemaRetro. 27 October 2009, 7:04 AM, PDT)
Bela Lugosi And Boris Karloff: The Expanded Story Of A Haunting Collaboration (Book Review)
(From Fangoria. 20 October 2009, 1:50 AM, PDT)
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How can it not be a classic?
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Cast
(Complete credited cast) | Bela Lugosi | ... | Count Dracula |
 | Helen Chandler | ... | Mina Harker |
| David Manners | ... | John Harker |
| Dwight Frye | ... | Renfield |
| Edward Van Sloan | ... | Prof. Abraham Van Helsing |
| Herbert Bunston | ... | Dr. Jack Seward |
| Frances Dade | ... | Lucy Weston |
| Joan Standing | ... | Briggs (a nurse) |
| Charles K. Gerrard | ... | Martin (as Charles Gerrard) |
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Runtime:
75 min (corrected release length)
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Black and White (tinted)
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1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Sound System)
Certification:
Finland:K-15 (2004) |
Canada:PG (Manitoba/Ontario) |
Iceland:12 |
Canada:G (Nova Scotia/Quebec) |
Spain:T |
Norway:16 (1931) |
Argentina:13 |
Australia:PG |
Germany:12 |
UK:PG |
USA:Approved |
Sweden:7
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Cinematographer Karl Freund achieved the effect of Dracula's hypnotic stare by aiming two pencil-spot-lights into actor Bela Lugosi's eyes.
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Continuity: When the street doors of the London concert hall open to admit Dracula, the orchestra can be heard playing Schubert's "Unfinished Symphony". But in the next shot, an instant later, they are playing the conclusion of the prelude to "Die Meistersinger".
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Young Girl Passenger: [reading from a Transylvanian tourist brochure] "Among the rugged peaks that crown down upon the Borgo Pass are found crumbling castles of a bygone age."
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Young Girl Passenger: [reading from a Transylvanian tourist brochure] "Among the rugged peaks that crown down upon the Borgo Pass are found crumbling castles of a bygone age."
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Movie Connections:
Spoofed in The Monster Squad (1987)
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Soundtrack:
Swan Lake
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Is Lucy still roaming around London killing children?
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This is the movie that set the horror genre into action. Sure there may be a few campy scenes that look like they might be out of some high school play production (the rubber bats and armadillos in Dracula's castle come to mind), but there is an unmistakable suspense and eerieness about the film. If you are lucky enough to find the DVD reissue from 1999, you have three great versions: the original 1931 version with basically no background music, the 1999 rescoring of the movie by composer Philip Glass, and the extremely interesting Spanish version, made at the same time as the original (with totally different actors). If you have this DVD, watch the movie twice: once with no soundtrack and once with the Glass rescoring.... totally different movie. Glass' score is great, but it doesn't really help the movie at all (it actually hurts it in many cases). But the utter silence in Browning's original just makes my skin crawl! The acting is actually quite great (Lugosi is, of course, phenomenal as is Dwight Frye as Renfield). The fear, the suspense, and, believe it or not, the sexuality, combines for a great movie that was an unbelievable success in its first release ($700,000 in it first US release, $1.2 million worldwide). Not bad for a movie made 72 years ago!