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...decades than to old Edward G. Robinson bloodlettings on the Warner Brothers back lot. In the traditional Robinson role of the chairman of the thugs is Joseph Wiseman, a usually reliable actor who has mysteriously decided to portray the Sicilian overlord Salvatore Maranzano in an accent that is pure Transylvanian. Maranzano divides the gangs all over the country into families, then stands back and watches the fun, quoting Julius Caesar and letting the profits accrue until he himself is finally eliminated by an enterprising rival. Various beatings, tortures and murders ensue, although The Valachi Papers reserves its worst maulings...
Alice's reputation, plus the group's music-a tight hard-rock blend of unmerciful drumming, lush piano playing, deft guitar work and the leader's own Transylvanian vocal whine-have made $1,000,000 sellers of their last three Warner Bros. LPs-Love It to Death, Killer and School's Out (a free pair of bikini panties is included with that album...
Moro is a genius of the erotically macabre. Next to him, Lugosi is as benign as a bishop. "Bela," says Moro, "had the mannerisms, the Transylvanian suavity, the cape work, all that, but I don't think he ever really felt the urges." Moro feels them down to his hairy gray toes, because he understands the truth about monsters. They are not something else, but projections of ourselves turned inside...
Dracula lives! In the image of late actor Bela Lugosi, of course. A Los Angeles superior court has ruled that even though Lugosi died in 1956, the role of the Transylvanian night person is so thoroughly identified with him that his widow, Hope, 52, and his son, Bela George Lugosi, 34, are entitled to share in the money Universal Pictures has made from the licensing of Dracula games, shirts, masks and other horrors fashioned in the Lugosi image...
...turned out on a near-strangulation budget and schedule ($500,000 and 25 shooting days). The plots, usually lifted from some Victorian romancer like Bram Stoker or Sheridan Le Fanu, are as creaky as the doors of Castle Dracula. The starlets who flit through prehistoric landscapes or quaint Transylvanian villages, bosoms heaving with fright, seem as interchangeable as the sets...