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Overview

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6.0/10   1,110 votes
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Director:
Peter Sasdy
Writers:
Anthony Hinds (writer)
Bram Stoker (character)
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Release Date:
7 June 1970 (USA) more
Genre:
Horror | Romance more
Tagline:
DRINK A PINT OF BLOOD A DAY more
Plot:
Three elderly distinguished gentlemen are searching for some excitement in their boring borgoueis lives... more | full synopsis
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Original actress in House remake: First photo, comments
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More Style rather than Substance more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Christopher Lee ... Dracula
Geoffrey Keen ... William Hargood
Gwen Watford ... Martha Hargood
Linda Hayden ... Alice Hargood
Peter Sallis ... Samuel Paxton
Anthony Higgins ... Paul Paxton (as Anthony Corlan)
Isla Blair ... Lucy Paxton
John Carson ... Jonathon Secker

Martin Jarvis ... Jeremy Secker
Ralph Bates ... Lord Courtley
Roy Kinnear ... Weller
Michael Ripper ... Inspector Cobb
Russell Hunter ... Felix
Shirley Jaffe ... Betty - Hargood's Maid
Keith Marsh ... Father
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Additional Details

MPAA:
Rated R for sexual content/nudity and brief violence. (2004 re-rating)
Runtime:
USA:91 min | UK:95 min (uncut)
Country:
UK
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (RCA Sound Recording)
Certification:
UK:15 (video rating) | UK:X (original rating) | Canada:13+ (Quebec) | Australia:M | USA:GP (certificate #22364) (original rating) | USA:R (re-rating) (2004) | Ireland:15

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Some writers have claimed that Vincent Price was going to play a fourth member Of Geoffrey Keen's Thrill Seekers but budget cuts removed the character so his part was shared among John Carson, Peter Sallis and Keen. more
Goofs:
Continuity: During the prologue Weller hears a series of earsplitting, bloodcurdling screams, which lead him to witness Dracula's demise. However, whilst impaled on the cross during Dracula Has Risen From The Grave, the Count makes little in the way of noise -- gasps rather than ear-piercing shrieks capable of pervading through the dead of night. more
Quotes:
Dracula: They have destroyed my servant. They will be destroyed... more
Movie Connections:
Features Dracula Has Risen from the Grave (1968) more

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5 out of 6 people found the following comment useful:-
More Style rather than Substance, 10 October 2000
Author: mord39 from New York

MORD39 RATING: **1/2 out of ****

This is a gorgeous-looking film to behold. It is absolutely glowing with Victorian richness and gothic beauty.

As for the story itself, it's another weak one. It starts out admirably with a group of thrill-seeking businessmen purchasing the powdered remains of Dracula and joining the eccentric Ralph Bates in an unholy ceremony wherein Dracula is revived via the death of his servant. When the resurrected Count angrily warns: "They have destroyed my servant...they shall be destroyed!" all credibility as to his motives go out the window; Dracula could not be renewed without his servant's death, so why the desire for revenge? Why does he even care about a peasant like that?

Dracula was not originally intended to be in the story, so he appears to be out of place. Chris Lee's screen time is again brief, and he's not given much to do except be the orchestrator for revenge as he makes the children of the businessmen kill their parents for him.

The film, as stated earlier, is beautiful to behold and still fun to watch despite the Dracula flaws described above. Lee kept vowing never to play the part again sequel after sequel, yet he still hung on for the next few.

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