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Wednesday 17 March 2021

Dracula 1931

 







Cast

Complete credited cast:
Bela LugosiBela Lugosi...Count Dracula
Helen ChandlerHelen Chandler...Mina
David MannersDavid Manners...John Harker
Dwight FryeDwight Frye...Renfield
Edward Van SloanEdward Van Sloan...Van Helsing
Herbert BunstonHerbert Bunston...Doctor Seward
Frances DadeFrances Dade...Lucy
Joan StandingJoan Standing...Maid
Charles K. GerrardCharles K. Gerrard...Martin (as Charles Gerrard)





Storyline

After a harrowing ride through the Carpathian mountains in eastern Europe, Renfield enters castle Dracula to finalize the transferral of Carfax Abbey in London to Count Dracula, who is in actuality a vampire. Renfield is drugged by the eerily hypnotic count, and turned into one of his thralls, protecting him during his sea voyage to London. After sucking the blood and turning the young Lucy Weston into a vampire, Dracula turns his attention to her friend Mina Seward, daughter of Dr. Seward who then calls in a specialist, Dr. Van Helsing, to diagnose the sudden deterioration of Mina's health. Van Helsing, realizing that Dracula is indeed a vampire, tries to prepare Mina's fiance, John Harker, and Dr. Seward for what is to come and the measures that will have to be taken to prevent Mina from becoming one of the undead. Written by Doug Sederberg 

first lines]
Young Girl Passenger: [reading from a Transylvanian tourist brochure] "Among the rugged peaks that frown down upon the Borgo Pass are found crumbling castles of a bygone age."

Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, WWV 96
(1868) (uncredited)
Music by by Richard Wagner
End of the Overture played at a concert

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