Word: dracula
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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HARKNESS COMMONS. Dracula with Bella Lugosi...
...Dracula. The original 1931 horror classic with Bela Lugosi as the Vampire Count loose on unsuspecting London...
Nosferatu. F.W. Murnau's 1921 film was the first screen version of Bram Stoker's novel, Dracula, and one of the more intriguing works of German Expressionism. Special effects within a natural setting create a macabre atmosphere unmatched by the remakes but Max Schreek, as the vampire, doesn't approach Bela Lugosi, Petrified Forest. Robert Sherwood's broadway hit about innocent people held captive by a futhless gang at a desert diner was transferred to the screen with little visual imagination, but retained its fine performances by idealist Leslie Howard, romantic Bette Davis, and killer Humphrey Bogart in his first...
...Search of Dracula is a bit overpackaged. But the authors have done fine work in assembling documents and tales from Dracula's own time. A report written for Czar Ivan the Great in 1490 is particularly revealing. It would not have been good sense to criticize Dracula harshly lest the Czar suspect the principle of autocratic rule was being challenged. So the writer repeated the bloody stories in an approving tone...
...Dracula, he implied, was eccentric but just, a stern father to his people. Thus do courtiers who present news summaries to rulers remain in favor, even to this...