Dracula (1979)

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Richter</B></div> <div> <B>Music...............John Williams</B></div> <div> <B>Producer.........Walter Mirsch</B></div> <div> <B>Executive Producer....Marvin E. Mirsch</B></div> <div> <B>Based on the play by Hamilton Dean & John Blderston & on the novel "Dracula" by Bram Stoker</B></div> <div> <B>Special Effects by Albert Whitlock</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Dramatis Personae</U></B></div> <div> <B>Von Helsing..Laurence Olivier</B></div> <div> <B>Seward.......Donald Pleasence</B></div> <div> <B>Lucy Seward..Kate Nelligan</B></div> <div> <B>Harker.......Trevor Eve</B></div> <div> <B>Aggie........Janine Duvitski </B></div> <div> <B>Mina.........Jan Francis</B></div> <div> <B>Rennfield....Tony Haygarth</B></div> <div> <B>WHERE THE HELL IS LANGELA?</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Critique</U></B><B>: Boring, wooden, star-studded march through Bram Stoker's </B><I><B>Dracula</B></I><B>.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Plot Summary</U></B><B>: The property of Count Dracula is thrown overboard. Almost. A wolf wreaks havoc on the stormy sea. Later laudnum is given to the mentally ill in Seward's institution. Nina sees a ship foundering on the rocks and runs out into the storm. Johnathan Harker shows up at the wreck. Dracula is the only survivor--found by Nina. Rennfield feels Harcur has sold Dracula a bill of goods. </B></div> <div> <B>Rennfield drags boxes of dirt into Dracula's new home--the crumbling Carfax abbey. There are questions about the fate of the crew. At dinner "I never drink...wine". Nosferatu 'not dead' was in the ship's log. Dracula beguiles the party with some hypnotism. Lucy and Harker...Dracula watches and is not amused. </B></div> <div> <B>Drac's entrance to nina's chamber is well done. She is receptive. After a run-in with Dracula, Rennfield takes to eating roaches. The next morning, Nina asphixiates. She also has two puncture wounds. Harker (Lucy's bbeau) shows up at Carfax with a legal transaction. Rennfield, trying to escape the count's service, ends up in the institution. </B></div> <div> <B>Drac coming down the wall is excellent.</B></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>