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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rated by buyers NR (Not Rated)
Type of bind: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN num: 0794051415325
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Full Screen, NTSC
Label: BBC Warner
Manufacturer: BBC Warner
Quantity: 1
Publishing house: BBC Warner
Region Code: 1
Release Date: September 25, 2007
Running Time: 160 minutes
Sale Popularity Level: 13424
Studio: BBC Warner
Theatrical Release Date: 1977
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This fan favorite three-part series from the BBC is now available on DVD for the very first time! Louis Jourdan stars as the deliciously blood-thirsty Count Dracula in this version of Bram Stoker's horror classic. Keeping close to the original novel the series begins with Jonathan Harker visiting the Count in Transylvania to help him with preparations to move to England. It is in the Count's castle that Jonathan becomes a prisoner and discovers Dracula's true nature. Many scenes shot on location -- such as the Gothic graveyard of London's Highgate Cemetery -- add extra atmosphere to an already powerful production.Running Time: 150 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: HORROR UPC: 794051415325 Manufacturer No: E4153
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Devotees of vampire cinema have long esteemed this heretofore hard-to-see adaptation of Bram Stoker's novel, made for BBC-TV in 1977. Count Dracula puts Louis Jourdan in the fangs and cape, in a version subtitled--and played as--a Gothic romance. This is one of those 1970s TV productions that use film for exteriors and video for the interiors, a tactic that increases the general sense of cheapness about the whole thing (although the location stuff is good, including scenes on the cliffs of Whitby, the port town where Dracula comes to visit England). With 150 minutes to play with, the production has more of Stoker than many film versions include, although there's still some shuffling of the original. It's all a bit slow, and surprisingly cheesy at times, even with the occasional startling image: Dracula scooting bat-like down the side of his castle, or the vampire brides preparing to devour a baby (a scene cut from some subsequent showings of the series, but restored here). Frank Finlay makes a focused Van Helsing--a minimum of camping, thankfully--and Susan Penhaligon and Judi Bowker are respectively hot and cold as Lucy and Mina. Jourdan is effective, although he's off screen a lot and really gets his good bites in toward the end. You'll need some patience, but Jourdan drinks it dry. --Robert Horton
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There are some liberties taken with the story, but no more than any other Dracula movie - in fact, less than most. And most importantly, in this post Anne Rice era, Dracula is EVIL in this one. Sure, he can be romantic and sexy
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I remember watching this on TV back when I was in jr. high & watching the bloody scenes, including Van Helsing driving a stake in one of Dracula's female turned vampire victims, complete with blood gushing & screaming, and the almost grey light type lighting during Dracula's blood feasts. Pretty scary stuff & would say it might affect younger(impressionable) viewers.
Aside from that the acting was pretty good and a pretty good version of the classic story.
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This is by far one of the better, more complete, versions of the original novel. It strays from the story far less than other adaptations, and therefore is a good version for a first-timer (far better, in other words, than the Coppola version with Gary Oldman). It is more true to the story than the Hammer versions (though they have their charms, as well), and even the very-good Frank Langella portrayal (with Laurence Olivier and Kate Nelligan). The supporting characters are fine (though none particularly stand-out), but Louis Jourdan is the star, and does an excellent job portraying the Count. Being made for British television, some of the effects are rather simplistic and tacky, but the scene of Dracula scaling the castle wall is memorable, as is the sequence where he brings the three vampire girls a baby to feed on and we see their blood-stained lips afterwards. Also, the staking scene is quite well-done, and more low-key (but still gross) than the Hammer versions. In all, a fine film.
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This is, without doubt, the most carefully-adapted version of Bram Stoker's classic available on video. Compared to the absurdly titled "Bram Stoker's Dracula", this version hues more closely to Stoker's book and captures that creation's essential Gothic character. While it's true that the screenwriter has taken some liberties--Mina and Lucy are sisters in this version, and the characters of Arthur Holmwood and Quincy Morris have been condensed into the video character "Quincy Holmwood", it can be argued that both changes tighten up the characterization and eliminate the kind of character development that works in a book but is unnecessarily discursive in a film. The Renfield character, on the other hand, is, for once, exactly as presented in the book--an unfortuate zoophagous patient in Seward's asylum who becomes Dracula's dupe.
Frank Finlay is the best Van Helsing on film, outclassing such heavyweights as Sir Laurence Olivier (in Universal's "sexy" film version) and Sir Anthony Hopkins, who had the misfortune to join forces with Francis Ford Coppola. Finlay's characterization incorporates much of the eccentricity of the book's doctor without the over-the-top quality of Hopkins.
Louis Jourdan's Count is surprisingly effective, combining elements of menace and allure that, while deviating from the brutish Dracula of Stoker's invention, is still more valid artistically than either Gary Oldman's bizarrely Oriental version or Frank Langella's suave, hunky vampire.
True, the special effects are occasionally cheap-looking--this program is contemporaneous with late-era Tom Baker Doctor Who, and shares those production values--but the use of color-separation overlay (those tinted negative images) and the avoidance of gore-for-fore's sake is refreshing in this era of comic book CGI monsters and buckets of blood. The musical score is weird and weirdly effective, never intrusive and enhancing the spook-factor.
Skip the recent BBC remake, with its trendy suggestion of a venereal disease origin of Dracula's vampirism, and pick up this faithful version of Dracula.
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I saw this when it was very first shown on tv as a mini serie. I remembered loving it. But cinematography has come along way since then. And now it just doesn't work. Also, with so many vampire chracters (actors) since then, yesterday Louis Jordan just doesn't cut it as Dracula. Still, it's worth watching if just to see how far we've come in films.
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