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Dracula

  • 19311931
  • PassedPassed
  • 1h 15m
IMDb RATING
7.4/10
54K
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Dracula (1931)
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Transylvanian vampire Count Dracula bends a naive real estate agent to his will, then takes up residence at a London estate where he sleeps in his coffin by day and searches for potential vi... Read allTransylvanian vampire Count Dracula bends a naive real estate agent to his will, then takes up residence at a London estate where he sleeps in his coffin by day and searches for potential victims by night.Transylvanian vampire Count Dracula bends a naive real estate agent to his will, then takes up residence at a London estate where he sleeps in his coffin by day and searches for potential victims by night.
IMDb RATING
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54K
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    • Tod Browning
    • Karl Freund(uncredited)
  • Writers
    • Bram Stoker(by)
    • Hamilton Deane(from the play adapted by)
    • John L. Balderston(from the play adapted by)
  • Stars
    • Bela Lugosi
    • Helen Chandler
    • David Manners
    • Tod Browning
    • Karl Freund(uncredited)
  • Writers
    • Bram Stoker(by)
    • Hamilton Deane(from the play adapted by)
    • John L. Balderston(from the play adapted by)
  • Stars
    • Bela Lugosi
    • Helen Chandler
    • David Manners
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 617User reviews
    • 191Critic reviews
    • 71Metascore
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    Videos1

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    Bela Lugosi and Frances Dade in Dracula (1931)
    Bela Lugosi in Dracula (1931)
    Bela Lugosi and Helen Chandler in Dracula (1931)
    Bela Lugosi, Helen Chandler, and Dwight Frye in Dracula (1931)
    Bela Lugosi in Dracula (1931)
    Bela Lugosi in Dracula (1931)
    Bela Lugosi stars as Dracula
    Bela Lugosi stars as Dracula
    Bela Lugosi stars as Dracula
    Bela Lugosi stars as Dracula
    Drac & Mina
    Promo still of Chandler & Lugosi

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    Bela Lugosi
    Bela Lugosi
    • Count Dracula
    Helen Chandler
    Helen Chandler
    • Mina
    David Manners
    David Manners
    • John Harker
    Dwight Frye
    Dwight Frye
    • Renfield
    Edward Van Sloan
    Edward Van Sloan
    • Van Helsing
    Herbert Bunston
    Herbert Bunston
    • Doctor Seward
    Frances Dade
    Frances Dade
    • Lucy
    Charles K. Gerrard
    Charles K. Gerrard
    • Martin
    • (as Charles Gerrard)
    Anna Bakacs
    • Innkeeper's Daughter
    • (uncredited)
    Bunny Beatty
    • Flower Girl
    • (uncredited)
    Nicholas Bela
    • Coach Passenger
    • (uncredited)
    Daisy Belmore
    Daisy Belmore
    • Coach Passenger
    • (uncredited)
    William A. Boardway
    William A. Boardway
    • Concertgoer Outside Theatre
    • (uncredited)
    Barbara Bozoky
    • Innkeeper's Wife
    • (uncredited)
    Tod Browning
    Tod Browning
    • Harbormaster
    • (voice)
    • (uncredited)
    Moon Carroll
    • Maid
    • (uncredited)
    Geraldine Dvorak
    Geraldine Dvorak
    • Dracula's Wife
    • (uncredited)
    John George
    John George
    • Small Scientist
    • (uncredited)
      • Tod Browning
      • Karl Freund(uncredited)
    • Writers
      • Bram Stoker(by)
      • Hamilton Deane(from the play adapted by)
      • John L. Balderston(from the play adapted by)
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    • Trivia
      In the scene where Dracula and Renfield are traveling to London by boat, the footage shown is borrowed from a Universal silent film called The Storm Breaker (1925). Silent films were projected at a different frames-per-second speed from that later adopted for sound films, accounting for the jerky movements and quicker-than-normal action of these shots.
    • Goofs
      In the scene where Van Helsing is attempting to catch Dracula's lack of reflection in a mirror, there are visible chalk marks on the floor showing Bela Lugosi where to stand for the shot.
    • Quotes

      Count Dracula: This is very old wine. I hope you will like it.

      Renfield: Aren't you drinking?

      Count Dracula: I never drink... wine.

    • Crazy credits
      The original title card has producer Carl Laemmle, Jr. identified as Presient (sic).
    • Alternate versions
      A version of the film played on the 10/24/15 airing of Svengoolie (1995) featured a soundtrack taken from the French language audio track on the Dracula Blu-ray.
    • Connections
      Alternate-language version of Drácula (1931)
    • Soundtracks
      Swan Lake, Op.20
      (1877) (uncredited)

      Music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Excerpt Played during the opening credits

    User reviews617

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    9/10
    Lugosi's Triumph
    Tod Browning's film of the Stoker novel didn't so much eclipse Murnau's NOSFERATU (1922) as shove it into antiquity. One big reason was the technological advancement of sound. Roughly three years old by 1930, the public embraced the talking picture wholeheartedly over silents.

    The other big reason for Dracula's success was that the star of the stage play had been cast as the star of the film. And movie history was made. Bela Lugosi's Count Dracula is now a eighty-one year old icon, outlasting all other interpretations before or since. The twist is that this Dracula looks nothing like Stoker's creation (read the book). Lugosi, either through his work with the playwrights or later at Universal with Browning, devised the most insidious form the character would ever take- a handsome, courtly, well-groomed, civilized aristocrat, so gracious and attractive that he projected an aura of well-being over the viewer. This was worlds away from the Murnau/Max Schreck approach of head-on abomination in NOSFERATU.

    Sensibly, no one in their right mind would stay within viewing distance of Schreck (or Kinski in NOSFERATU, THE VAMPYRE and Dafoe in SHADOW OF THE VAMPIRE) after the first glimpse. But Lugosi's Count would have you chatting and drinking wine- until he began to drink of you. That cape and those evening clothes are the perfect deception. Browning's Dracula is sometimes stagy and tentative in its continuity (it feels at times that the director was unsure where to go next in the progression of scenes). But Karl Freund's photography summons up a persistent mood of heavy gloom and enveloping dread.

    Two other assets in the film are Edward Van Sloan as Van Helsing and Dwight Frye as Renfield. Van Sloan was Universal's resident Learned Man, appearing as an Egyptologist in THE MUMMY (1933), and perhaps most famously as Dr. Waldman in FRANKENSTEIN (1931). A career-long character actor, Dwight Frye was an eccentric talent who appears to have worked exclusively at Universal. He had his best role as Renfield, producing a still blood-curdling, sneering laugh that seemed to come from the depths of a hellish insanity. If you haven't seen this Dracula please do so. The Count awaits.
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    • Release date
      • February 14, 1931 (United States)
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    • Filming locations
      • Vasquez Rocks Natural Area Park - 10700 W. Escondido Canyon Rd., Agua Dulce, California, USA
    • Production company
      • Universal Pictures
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    • 1 hour 15 minutes
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