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Dracula
- Director: John Badham
- Writer: Bram Stoker; Hamilton Deane
- Producer: Marvin Mirisch; Walter Mirisch
CGiii Comment
It looks good in a few places - with some seriously dodgy SFX...and, a bouffant vampire.
Despite the cast, it really can't be taken seriously in any way.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
When a ship is wrecked off Whitby, the only survivor, Count Dracula, is discovered lying on the beach by the sickly young Mina Van Helsing, who is visiting her dear friend Lucy Seward. Lucy, her fiancé Jonathan Harker (a solicitor), and her father Dr. Jack Seward (who runs the local asylum) try to make the Count feel welcome to England. The Count quickly takes the life of Mina, and proceeds to romance Lucy, with the intention of making her his greatest bride. Soon after the death of Mina, the Sewards call her father Dr. Abraham Van Helsing to come to their home. As Lucy falls deeper under the spell of the Count, Dr. Van Helsing almost immediately comes to understand that his daughter fell prey to a vampire and discovers the culprit to be none other than the Count himself. Dr. Van Helsing, Dr. Seward, and Harker work together to foil the Count's plans to take Lucy away to his native Transylvania.
Cast & Characters
Frank Langella as Count Dracula;
Laurence Olivier as Prof. Abraham Van Helsing;
Donald Pleasence as Dr. Jack Seward;
Kate Nelligan as Lucy Seward;
Trevor Eve as Jonathan Harker;
Jan Francis as Mina Van Helsing;
Janine Duvitski as Annie;
Tony Haygarth as Milo Renfield;
Teddy Turner as Swales;
Sylvester McCoy as Walter;
Kristine Howarth as Mrs. Galloway;
Joe Belcher as Tony Hindley;
Ted Carroll as Scarborough Sailor;
Frank Birch as Harbormaster;
Gabor Vernon as Captain of Demeter