Dracula (1973)

AKA's:

Bram Stoker's Dracula / Demone Nero, Il / Dracula Et Ses Femmes Vampires / Graf Dracula

Release date:	1973 UK
Running time:	94' (cover 95') - Source: DVD (RC 2/PAL)
Rating:	Germ.: 16; UK: 15; US: NR
Main Crew:	Director: Dan Curtis (Dead Of Night 1977; House Of Dark Shadows 1970) Producer: Dan Curtis Productions Score: Robert Cobert Writer: Richard Matheson (based on the novel by Bram Stoker) Director of photography: Oswald Morris
Cast:	Use the dropdown menu to see the full cast Jack Palance / Count Dracula Nigel Davenport / Dr. Van Helsing Fiona Lewis / Lucy Westenra Murray Brown / Jonathan Harker Simon Ward / Arthur Holmwood Pamela Brown / Mrs. Westenra Penelope Horner / Mina Murray Virginia Wetherell / Dracula's Wife Barbara Lindley / Dracula's Wife Sarah Douglas / Dracula's Wife George Pravda / Innkeeper Hana Maria Pravda / Innkeeper's Wife Reg Lye / Zookeeper Fred Stone / Priest Roy Spencer / Whitby Inn Clerk Sandra Caron / Whitby Inn Maid John Challis / Stockton-on-Tees Clerk Nigel Gregory / Midvale Shipping Clerk John Pennington / Richmond Shipping Clerk Martin Read / Coast Guardsman Gita Denise / Madam Kristoff
Summary:	1987. Londoner estate agent Jonathan Harker (Murray Brown) travels to Transylvania, to the castle of Count Dracula (Jack Palance). The mysterious client is looking for a residence in England, but Harker does not suspect why... The reason goes back 400 years in time, as the cruel wallachian prince Vlad Tepes - Dracula - returned from an expedition and lost the love of his life by a tragic fate. It was then when he pledged himself to the forces of darkness. Now he recognized Lucy (Fiona Lewis), the best friend of Harker's bride Mina (Penelope Horner), on a photograph as the reincarnation of his lost love. Once again, the centuries-old love is aroused with unbridled force, and Dracula wants to possess Lucy at all costs. Nothing can hold him back. He leaves Harker to his three vampire brides at the castle, and travels immediately to England. Soon, the beloved Lucy falls voluptuously into Dracula's arms, and he sinks his teeth into her beautiful neck. Even the surveillance by Lucy's fiancé Arthur (Simon Ward) and vampire hunter Van Helsing (Nigel Davenport) can not save her. After spending several nights in the arms of the prince of darkness, she's rapidly dying by anaemia. She transforms into a vampire herself, and Dracula believes that his love belongs to him now and for all eternity, but Arthur and Van Helsing are onto a pitiless vampire hunt. It's a race against time, as Dracula already has brought his next victim to heel, the beautiful Mina. Through an extremely erotic act, she drinks of his blood, and therefore becomes a part of him...
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