Transylvanian vampire Count Dracula bends a naive real estate agent to his will, then takes up residence at a London estate where he sleeps in his coffin by day and searches for potential vi... Read allTransylvanian vampire Count Dracula bends a naive real estate agent to his will, then takes up residence at a London estate where he sleeps in his coffin by day and searches for potential victims by night.Transylvanian vampire Count Dracula bends a naive real estate agent to his will, then takes up residence at a London estate where he sleeps in his coffin by day and searches for potential victims by night.
- Awards
- 5 wins & 3 nominations
Charles K. Gerrard
- Martin
- (as Charles Gerrard)
Anna Bakacs
- Innkeeper's Daughter
- (uncredited)
Bunny Beatty
- Flower Girl
- (uncredited)
Nicholas Bela
- Coach Passenger
- (uncredited)
Daisy Belmore
- Coach Passenger
- (uncredited)
William A. Boardway
- Concertgoer Outside Theatre
- (uncredited)
Barbara Bozoky
- Innkeeper's Wife
- (uncredited)
Tod Browning
- Harbormaster
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
Moon Carroll
- Maid
- (uncredited)
Geraldine Dvorak
- Dracula's Wife
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaIn the scene where Dracula and Renfield are traveling to London by boat, the footage shown is borrowed from a Universal silent film called The Storm Breaker (1925). Silent films were projected at a different frames-per-second speed from that later adopted for sound films, accounting for the jerky movements and quicker-than-normal action of these shots.
- GoofsIn the scene where Van Helsing is attempting to catch Dracula's lack of reflection in a mirror, there are visible chalk marks on the floor showing Bela Lugosi where to stand for the shot.
- Quotes
Count Dracula: This is very old wine. I hope you will like it.
Renfield: Aren't you drinking?
Count Dracula: I never drink... wine.
- Crazy creditsThe original title card has producer Carl Laemmle, Jr. identified as Presient (sic).
- Alternate versionsA version of the film played on the 10/24/15 airing of Svengoolie (1995) featured a soundtrack taken from the French language audio track on the Dracula Blu-ray.
- ConnectionsAlternate-language version of Drácula (1931)
- SoundtracksSwan Lake, Op.20
(1877) (uncredited)
Music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Excerpt Played during the opening credits
Featured review
How can it not be a classic?
This is the movie that set the horror genre into action. Sure there may be a few campy scenes that look like they might be out of some high school play production (the rubber bats and armadillos in Dracula's castle come to mind), but there is an unmistakable suspense and eerieness about the film. If you are lucky enough to find the DVD reissue from 1999, you have three great versions: the original 1931 version with basically no background music, the 1999 rescoring of the movie by composer Philip Glass, and the extremely interesting Spanish version, made at the same time as the original (with totally different actors). If you have this DVD, watch the movie twice: once with no soundtrack and once with the Glass rescoring.... totally different movie. Glass' score is great, but it doesn't really help the movie at all (it actually hurts it in many cases). But the utter silence in Browning's original just makes my skin crawl! The acting is actually quite great (Lugosi is, of course, phenomenal as is Dwight Frye as Renfield). The fear, the suspense, and, believe it or not, the sexuality, combines for a great movie that was an unbelievable success in its first release ($700,000 in it first US release, $1.2 million worldwide). Not bad for a movie made 72 years ago!
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- Also known as
- Misterija Drakula
- Filming locations
- Production company
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Box office
- Budget
- $355,000 (estimated)
- Gross worldwide
- $87,019
- Runtime1 hour 15 minutes
- Aspect ratio
- 1.20 : 1(original release)
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