Word: draculas
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...good, except for its unintentional lapses into 'Ninotchka' mockery, revealing the risible elements of any dogma-swallowing people; the photography is just right. I found myself frequently on the edge of my seat with stomach tingling, like it used to do when, as a kid, I saw the 'Dracula' films...
Some films that made the grade: House of Dracula, Dick Tracy v. Cueball, Gilda, The Best Years of Our Lives, The Outlaw. Explained a Library spokesman: the selections were not necessarily the year's "best," but they "most faithfully record in one way or another, the contemporary lives and preferences of the American people...
...Dracula: In a class by itself (e.g., "This party is positively Dracula...
...your vocabulary is strictly stock, and the teen-agers tell you it's off the cob, you may as well stop bumping your gums. But you, too, can get on the grooby side. A jive-talk glossary that is strictly Dracula has been put out by Parents' Institute, publishers of Calling All Girls (and Parents' Magazine). Some excerpts...
...horror of "Dracula" grips its audience so firmly that a few minor slips or weaknesses don't matter much. It is good theatre any time and has just the proper flavor for summer fare. Some of the lines may sound trite and some simply absurd, but the laughter disappears after a few attempts at blood-sucking. If you can forget sensitive, psychological drama for a while, you'll be sitting on the edge of your seat most of the evening. And you may not feel like taking the shortest route home through the darkened Yard after two and a half...