Count Dracula

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*Violent* *No Strong Language* *No Nudity* *No Sexual Situations* *Not Particularly Gory*</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>1970/Color/ Min./Republic Pictures & Towers of London/    Etablissement Sargon, Vaque, Liechtenstein/Rated PG</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Director...........Jess Franco (Angel of Death, Oasis of the Zombies)</B></div> <div> <B>Screenplay.....Peter Welbeck</B></div> <div> <B>Music...............Bruno Nicolai</B></div> <div> <B>Producer.........Harry Alan Towers</B></div> <div> <B>Executive Producer.....</B></div> <div> <B>Based on the Novel by Bram Stoker</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Dramatis Personae</U></B></div> <div> <B>Dracula.........Christopher Lee (Curse III, Star Wars, The Wicker Man)</B></div> <div> <B>Von Helsing.....Herbert Lom (Asylum, Mark of the Devil, Pink Panther1-5)</B></div> <div> <B>Rennfield.......Klaus Kinski (Crawl Space, Schizoid, Venom, Woyzeck)</B></div> <div> <B>Nina............Maria Rohm (Call of the Wild)</B></div> <div> <B>Jonathan Harker.Frederick Williams </B></div> <div> <B>Lucy............Soledad Miranda</B></div> <div> <B>Quincy..........Jack Taylor (Erotikill, Horror of the Zombies)</B></div> <div> <B>Dr. Steward.....Paul Muller(The Devil's Commandment, Nightmare Castle) </B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Critique</U></B><B>: As one might expect, Christopher Lee is not particularly scary or intriguing, still this is probably his best performance to date, with the possible exception of his cameo as an evil robot in "The Avengers". The general acting and remarkable film quality more than make up for him. That no one had thought of using Kinski as Rennfield bears witness to how stupid the world is. He was born for the part. Pretty good ecstatic feeding of the vampire on Lucy. The vampirised Lucy is scarier than Dracula. Women vampires generally are. It is a problem that we know this story so well by now. The attack of the stuffed animals, which is new, is not particularly effective. The 1992 film, with its quirky representation of the eighteen nineties and special effects has to get the nod here. Still, this is a competent job, though the last special effect is a real non-starter. Why is it so hard to do a convincing decomposition? While the count lives time and space have little meaning? </B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Plot Summary</U></B><B>: Transylvania 1897. English lawyer in training Jonathan Harker takes the train to Bistriss for some business with Count Dracula. He is warned away by a stranger on the train. At the Inn in Bistriss, Harker is awakened in the night by a Greta looking in on him who tells him that tomorrow, on St. George's night, all the evils of the world will circle round. Harker is taken in a coach, as the apprehensive townspeople watch. Harker is left on the road, and another coach comes to retrieve him. After a nerve wracking ride, he arrives at the castle. Dracula bids him enter freely, of his own will. Harker seems to take it in stride when neither Dracula nor the candles he is holding cast a reflection in the mirror. Dracula is looking into real estate in London. Harker begins to notice Dracula's strangely sharp teeth. A woman in the courtyard calls out that she wants her baby back. In the night, Harker is almost set upon by vampire women. Dracula bids them take a child instead. Harker awakens with two puncture wounds on his neck. He climbs out onto the battlements and in through the next window. There he finds a stone tomb which he opens to find Dracula within. Harker runs away and leaps out of a window. He awakens in Von Helsing's clinic for the mentally disturbed, looked after by Steward. He raves about being pursued by bats as big as men. When Von Helsing hears that Harker has been raving about Dracula and sees the puncture wounds, he is interested. In the next chamber, the mad, insect eating Rennfield screams and throws his food. Accompanied by Lucy Westerner, Nina Merrick goes to Von Helsing's clinic to visit Harker. Lucy is overcome by the howling of the madmen in the clinic. Von Helsing tells Nina that Harker has suffered a terrible shock. The ladies decide to stay at the clinic. As Lucy lies asleep, something, perhaps a bat, calls to her and she wanders outside, mesmerized. Nina follows Lucy into the night wondering what she could be doing. Lucy goes to the dilapidated building next door where Dracula has taken residence. There, Nina finds Lucy on the ground and Dracula, who had been there a moment before vanishes. The next morning, Lucy is in serious condition, presumably stemming from wounds on her neck and loss of blood. Lucy's fiance, Quincy Morris, is ushered in and without checking for type, (luckily, they seem to match) they set up a transfusion of his blood to her. That night, Lucy is called to the window again and she opens it, allowing the vampire to get through and feed. When she falls to the ground, Quincy rushes up to return her to bed, noticing the window is open. A drawn looking Harker goes to the screaming Rennfield who sits curled in the window. Von Helsing says Rennfield had a daughter who was found with little blood. When the daughter died in Transylvania, Rennfield became mad. Von Helsing is interested in Rennfield and Harker because he is interested in some corresponding legends. Dracula appears at his window and stares at Rennfield across the way who tears the bars from his window and falls quite a few stories, though he is hardly injured. While tending to Lucy, who is near death, Nina hears a sound and is drawn away. Soon Lucy is descended upon again and she welcomes the vampire to her for the last time. Nina barges in on the proceedings and sees the vampire at her throat. Von Helsing is now certain, and reads to the others about the characteristics of vampires, and particular about Count Dracula. A child wanders off alone at dusk and she meets Lucy now reanimated. The child comes to her beckoning and Lucy leads her off. Von Helsing soon reads of a child who was found dead near the church. That night, he brings Quincy and Harker with him to Lucy's grave where they find her body missing. They wait hidden until light when she magically reappears in the coffin, whereupon they drive in the stake and Quincy chaps through her neck with a spade. Quincy, Jonathan and Steward head off with crosses to do in Dracula. As they arrive in Dracula's cellar, where the cases have now vanished, the stuffed animals that are gathered there begin to come alive. Quincy's bullets don't have an effect on this taxodermical menace, and then Dracula appears before them. At the same moment, Nina, who has gone to Rennfield to get information, is attacked by him at the vampire's bidding. When the men show the vampire a cross, Nina is released. Soon, Nina receives a mysterious ticket to the opera. Finding out that she has gone out alone, Quincy and Jonathan rush to her aid. Before they can get there, she is taken by Dracula, and they find her on the floor with the classic puncture wounds. Dracula goes to a ship and pays the captain to bring some cargo and a passenger to Varna. Dracula comes to get the weakened Nina, but Von Helsing fends him off by drawing a cross made from fire. Jonathan and Quincy go after Dracula's harem in his cellar. As Jonathan and Quincy watch, peasants bear a box. This strikes them as suspicious so they drop some boulders on them, killing two of the peasants. Prying open the box, they find Dracula inside and they set the box afire.</B></div> </td> </tr></table></body>