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POLICE LOSING FIGHT WITH CRIME. In one issue, the News-Call Bulletin lavished 154 inches on April and subsidiary crime stories, including a map of the city with dots locating the scenes of recent crimes, grimly adorned with the Dracula-like silhouette of a criminal...
...jaundiced Dracula in ragpicker's clothing-in a background of bile...
...calling its current late show series "Shock Week", WNAC-TV may have turned away many persons who would enjoy these fine movies immensely. Last night's Dracula's Daughter for example, was in every way an exceptional film. Made in the 1930's, it is limited in cinematographic technique, but its brilliant characterizations and universal theme of man's helplessness in a hostile universe give it a quality of genius. Professor von Helping, the German occult scholar and vampire expert, embodies the intellectual's plight of being disregarded by society. Otto Krueger turns in an admirable performance as the sensitive...
...certain excess of irrelevant gaiety which distracts one from the somber business at hand is the film's only defect. One wonders if it is really essential to spend so much footage on the Transylvanian folk festival when what we really want to know is how things stand in Dracula's castle above the town. But this is at most a minor flaw in a generally excellent production. Dracula's Daughter, in short, makes fine entertainment, and tomorrow night's WNAC presentation - The Mad Ghoul-promises to be equally rewarding...
...Mielziner's set is a comic masterpiece of interior decrepitude, a kind of termite's vision of heaven, dominated by a rotting floor-to-ceiling stairway, a fit home, as one character puts it, for "the bride of Dracula." The set speaks, even if the script only stutters...