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Count Dracula

Original title: Nachts, wenn Dracula erwacht
  • 19701970
  • PGPG
  • 1h 38m
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5.6/10
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Count Dracula (1970)
Count Dracula, a gray-haired vampire who regains his youth by dining on the blood of maidens, is pursued in London and Transylvania by Professor Van Helsing, Jonathan Harker and Quincey Morris after he victimizes them and their loved ones.
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Count Dracula, a vampire who regains his youth by drinking the blood of maidens, is pursued in London and Transylvania by Professor Van Helsing, Jonathan Harker and Quincey Morris.Count Dracula, a vampire who regains his youth by drinking the blood of maidens, is pursued in London and Transylvania by Professor Van Helsing, Jonathan Harker and Quincey Morris.Count Dracula, a vampire who regains his youth by drinking the blood of maidens, is pursued in London and Transylvania by Professor Van Helsing, Jonathan Harker and Quincey Morris.
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    • Jesús Franco
  • Writers
    • Bram Stoker(novel "Dracula")
    • Erich Kröhnke(story)
    • Augusto Finocchi(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Christopher Lee
    • Herbert Lom
    • Klaus Kinski
    • Jesús Franco
  • Writers
    • Bram Stoker(novel "Dracula")
    • Erich Kröhnke(story)
    • Augusto Finocchi(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Christopher Lee
    • Herbert Lom
    • Klaus Kinski
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    • 98User reviews
    • 63Critic reviews
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    Christopher Lee
    Christopher Lee
    • Count Dracula
    Herbert Lom
    Herbert Lom
    • Professor Abraham Van Helsing
    Klaus Kinski
    Klaus Kinski
    • R.M. Renfield
    • (as Klaus Kinsky)
    Maria Rohm
    Maria Rohm
    • Mina Murray
    Fred Williams
    Fred Williams
    • Jonathan Harker
    Soledad Miranda
    Soledad Miranda
    • Lucy Westenra
    Jack Taylor
    Jack Taylor
    • Quincey Morris
    • (as Jack Tailor)
    Franco Castellani
    • Renfield's Warden
    Paul Muller
    Paul Muller
    • Dr. John Seward
    Emma Cohen
    Emma Cohen
    • Vampire Woman
    • (uncredited)
    Jesús Franco
    Jesús Franco
    • Van Helsing's servant
    • (uncredited)
    Teresa Gimpera
    Teresa Gimpera
    • Crying Mother
    • (uncredited)
    Colette Jack
    • Greta
    • (uncredited)
    José Martínez Blanco
    José Martínez Blanco
    • Traveller
    • (Spanish version)
    • (voice)
    • (uncredited)
    • …
    Jeannine Mestre
    Jeannine Mestre
    • Vampire Woman
    • (uncredited)
    Jesús Puente
    Jesús Puente
    • Minister of Interior
    • (uncredited)
    Moisés Augusto Rocha
    • Van Helsing's Servant
    • (uncredited)
      • Jesús Franco
    • Writers
      • Bram Stoker(novel "Dracula")
      • Erich Kröhnke(story)
      • Augusto Finocchi(screenplay)
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    • Trivia
      On a documentary included on the DVD, Director Jesús Franco claims that Klaus Kinski ate real flies as Renfield instead of fake ones.
    • Goofs
      The story is set in the 19th Century. However, modern sidewalk painting can be clearly seen in some scenes.
    • Quotes

      Count Dracula: One of my race crossed the Danube a destroyed the Turkish host.Though sometimes beaten back he came again and again then at the end he came again for he alone could triumph.This was a Dracula indeed.

    • Crazy credits
      In the opening credits (English and Spanish prints only): "Over fifty years ago Bram Stoker wrote the greatest of all horror stories. Now, for the first time, we retell, exactly as he wrote, one of the first - and still the best - tales of the macabre."
    • Alternate versions
      A 90-minute US version has the church-choir music removed from the climactic scenes, and tighter editing of those scenes.
    • Connections
      Featured in Tiempos duros para Drácula (1976)

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    COUNT Dracula (Jesus Franco, 1969) **1/2
    I'd been wanting to check out Franco's 'faithful' rendition of Bram Stoker's classic vampire tale ever since I came upon a review of it in two horror-film reference books from the mid-70s written by Alan Frank. When the Dark Sky R1 DVD was announced, I was overjoyed – but this was soon dissipated by reports that their print was missing some footage; I still intended to pick up that edition for the interesting supplements (Franco interview, star Christopher Lee reading excerpts from the novel), but an upcoming German 2-Disc Set is supposed to be complete as well as featuring an Audio Commentary with Franco and co-star Fred Williams! Anyway, having watched the film now – via the Spanish DVD – I don't think the additional footage was fair trade for the lack of an option to include the English-language track (or, at least, English subtitles); while I'm obviously familiar with the storyline, so that I had no difficulty following the proceedings, I missed hearing the Stoker dialogue – not to mention Lee and Herbert Lom's distinctive voices!

    Its overall effect is worlds removed from the Hammer outings which starred Lee: these were actually still going on when COUNT Dracula was made, but he had become increasingly disenchanted with their approach. Low-key, deliberately-paced and hampered by severe budgetary constraints (resulting in shoddy effects and a distinct lack of props), the film nevertheless makes the most of its Spanish locations – even if Manuel Merino's shaky camera-work displays an unwarranted propensity for zoom shots (while an attack, ostensibly taking the vampire's POV, then bafflingly reveals Dracula to be coming from a totally different direction!). The soundtrack highlights Bruno Nicolai's typically reliable score (at once evocative and moody), but it's punctuated by weird – and amusing – slurping sounds during the vampire attacks! The Spanish DVD presents the film in its correct full-frame aspect ratio, though the transfer itself lends the whole an unrealistic orange hue (as opposed to the bluish tones, for night-time sequences, which have been mentioned online with respect to the Dark Sky edition).

    It has been said that Lee's performance in COUNT Dracula is superior to his various interpretations in the Hammer films: while I certainly appreciated his different approach to the role, he is still given relatively little time in which to work his magic (no pun intended); interestingly, the vampire starts off as an old man here but is gradually rejuvenated through his bloodsucking habits (a concept originating in Stoker and picked up again by Francis Ford Coppola for his BRAM STOKER'S Dracula [1992], another would-be rigorous adaptation). The rest of the main cast is virtually a "Who's Who" of Franco's filmography during this time: Herbert Lom makes for an imposing Van Helsing (due to the language barrier, I didn't understand why he was suddenly wheelchair-bound – but, from the "Eccentric Cinema" review, I gathered that the character had suffered a stroke); Klaus Kinski is a creepy Renfield (able to create a character by saying almost nothing at all – he had already done similar duties for Franco as the Marquis De Sade in the 1968 version of "Justine" and, by the way, it's interesting that the actor would himself eventually play Dracula twice, in NOSFERATU, THE VAMPYRE [1979] and the Italian-made NOSFERATU A VENEZIA [1988]); Maria Rohm as Mina (looking ravishing but who's rather underused throughout); Soledad Miranda as Lucy (she only really comes into her own when turned into a vampire, which actually precedes her iconic turn in Franco's VAMPYROS LESBOS (1970) – itself a very loose adaptation of "Dracula"!); Fred Williams as Harker; Jack Taylor as Quincey; Paul Muller as Dr. Seward; and even Franco himself as Van Helsing's dopey-looking yet vaguely sinister manservant.

    For all its shortcomings (it wouldn't be a Franco film if it weren't flawed), COUNT Dracula still provides a fair quota of memorable moments: Dracula silencing the wolves outside his castle; Dracula feeding a baby to his 'brides'; Dracula's attacks on Miranda, twice interrupted by Rohm (whom he eventually gets to, of all places, at an opera house!); Miranda's bloody demise in her coffin; the stuffed animals in Dracula's London home coming to life to scare the vampire hunters; Lom burning a cross-shape on the floor in his clinic to ward off the approaching vampire; blood spurting in Taylor's face from his staking of a vampire woman in Dracula's castle; Dracula's fiery come-uppance (actually similar to Miranda's – not to mention Bela Lugosi in the 1931 Universal classic – in that he's dispatched while at his most vulnerable, i.e. asleep in his coffin).

    It's unfortunate that none of the companies who released – or are set to release – the film on DVD seem to hold the rights to CUADECUC, VAMPIR (1970), a documentary shot at the time of COUNT Dracula's production. By the way, I should eventually be following this viewing of the film with several more Francos, including alternate versions of two monster mashes on similar lines (but even more idiosyncratic), namely Dracula – PRISONER OF FRANKENSTEIN (1971) and THE CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN aka THE EROTIC RITES OF FRANKENSTEIN (1972/3).
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    • Release date
      • October 12, 1973 (United States)
      • Spain
      • West Germany
      • Italy
      • Liechtenstein
      • United Kingdom
      • English
      • Spanish
      • Italian
      • German
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    • Filming locations
      • Estudios Cinematográficos Balcázar, Esplugues de Llobregat, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
    • Production companies
      • Filmar Compagnia Cinematografica
      • Fénix Cooperativa Cinematográfica
      • Corona Filmproduktion
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    • 1 hour 38 minutes
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