Word: dracula
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Karloff and Lugosi in the original "Frankenstien and Dracula...
Wearing a black cloak and several delicious disguises, Channing Pollock portrays Judex with the stubborn, single-minded intensity of a reformed Dracula. The plot that roils around him is mostly post-Victorian gimcrackery, carried out in a pure period style that offers everything from mad little chases in vintage jalopies to the acrobatics of human flies, from reunions of long-lost sons and ruined fathers to the machinations of a rascally banker whose ill-gotten capital gains keep Judex awake nights. So does the banker's daughter (Edith Scob), a lovely wisp of a heroine. All crumpled organdy...
...Outside of Bucharest, the Latin influence fades quickly into what visitors call "Turkish baroque"-a conglomerate of minarets and mud walls, soaring spiked fences and rambling cattle. Cluj (formerly Klausenburg) is Rumania's second city-with a population of 170,000 and an undeserved reputation as headquarters for Dracula, the world's first Batman. Heartily Hungarian in mood (it is the capital of the Magyar Autonomous Region), Cluj is an intellectual center that serves Bucharest in much the same way that Cracow does Warsaw, or Leningrad Moscow. There the works of Absurdist Eugene Ionesco get a frequent hearing...
Married. Brian Donlevy, 63, now playing the mad scientist in Hollywood's The Curse of the Fly; and Lillian Arch Lugosi, 54, ex-wife of the late Bela (Dracula) Lugosi; he for the third time, she for the second; in Indio, Calif...
...Apologies. Born to show business, he considers Minneapolis his home town, but he spent his early youth ranging the country with his parents. His father was a radio actor (Gangbusters, Crime Doctor), and his mother was a character actress on Broadway (Dracula...