Carlos Villarías, Lupita Tovar, Barry Norton
At midnight on Walpurgis Night, an English clerk, Renfield, arrives at Count Dracula's castle in the Carpathian Mountains. After signing papers to take over a ruined abbey near London, Dracula drives ...( read more
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Filmed at night using Spanish-speaking actors on the same sets the Tod Browning/Bela Lugosi crew used in the day, this is an alternate version of the Dracula story. Melford's variation is more eerie and atmospheric than the English language version, and less stagebound; if Lugo...( read more)
Some call it superior to the English version, and I can see why. Still, the old version feel more like a classic to me. This is like a cover version of a classic song, it may have more sophisticated instrumentation, but it's just not the original.
El hispano! es terrible mente acartonado, largo, y lento termina siendo de un aburrimiento sin tregua
Superior to the Lugosi version in every way except two.....Lugosi is the definitive Dracula- and it goes on longer than it should. But in every other department, I feel it is a better movie!
A single photo card from this movie sold for $65,725 at auction! I think I will see this...
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