Dracula
DVD cover
Directed by	Dan Curtis
Produced by	Dan Curtis
Written by	Richard Matheson
Starring	Jack Palance Simon Ward Nigel Davenport Pamela Brown Fiona Lewis Penelope Horner
Music by	Robert Cobert
Running time	100 min
Country	USA
Language	English
Budget	unknown
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Dracula is a television adaptation of Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula written by Richard Matheson and directed by Dark Shadows creator Dan Curtis. Dan Curtis (born August 12, 1928) is a director and producer of television and film, probably best known for the afternoon TV series Dark Shadows, which originally aired from 1966 to 1971 and has aired in syndication for the last thirty years. ... Dan Curtis (born August 12, 1928) is a director and producer of television and film, probably best known for the afternoon TV series Dark Shadows, which originally aired from 1966 to 1971 and has aired in syndication for the last thirty years. ... Richard Matheson Richard Burton Matheson (born February 20, 1926) is an American author and screenwriter, typically of fantasy, horror or science fiction. ... Jack Palance, (born Volodymyr Palanyuk (Ukr: Володимир Паланюк))on February 18, 1919, in Hazle Township, Pennsylvania, USA), is an Academy Award-winning American actor. ... Simon Ward (born London, October 19, 1941) is an English actor. ... |Nigel Davenport (born 1928) is a British actor. ... Pamela Mary Brown (July 8, 1917 - September 18, 1975) was an English stage and film actress, born in London, England, U.K.. After attending RADA, she made her stage debut in 1936 as Juliet in a Stratford-upon-Avon production of Romeo and Juliet. ... Robert Cobert (October 26, 1924-) is a composer who has written extensively for television and movies. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... A biological adaptation is an anatomical structure, physiological process or behavioral trait of an organism that has evolved over a period of time by the process of natural selection such that it increases the expected long-term reproductive success of the organism. ... Abraham Bram Stoker (November 8, 1847–April 20, 1912) was an Irish writer, best remembered as the author of the influential horror novel Dracula. ... Dracula is an 1897 novel by Irish author Bram Stoker, and the name of its most famous character, the vampire Count Dracula. ... Dark Shadows was a gothic television soap opera that originally aired weekdays on the ABC television network, from June 27, 1966 to April 2, 1971. ...

Cast

• Jack Palance as Count Dracula
• Simon Ward as Arthur Holmwood
• Nigel Davenport as Abraham Van Helsing
• Pamela Brown as Mrs. Westenra
• Fiona Lewis as Lucy Westenra
• Penelope Horner as Mina Murray
• Murray Brown as Jonathan Harker
• Virginia Wetherell (as Virginia Wetherall) as one of Dracula's wives
• Barbara Lindley as one of Dracula's wives
• Sarah Douglas as one of Dracula's wives

Alternate meaning: Dracula (orchid genus) Dracula is a fictional character, arguably the most famous vampire in fiction. ... For other uses, see Dracula (disambiguation). ... Professor Abraham Van Helsing is a fictional character in Bram Stokers 1897 novel, Dracula. ... Lucy Westenra is a fictional character in the novel Dracula (1897) by Bram Stoker. ... Wilhelmina Mina Harker is a fictional character of Bram Stokers seminal horror novel Dracula. ... Jonathan Harker is a fictional character in the 1897 novel Dracula by Bram Stoker. ... Virginia Wetherell is a British actress, best known for her roles in Hammer horror films such as Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde and Demons of the Mind. ... Brides of Dracula is a 1960 British horror film directed by Terence Fisher for Hammer Studios. ... Sarah Douglas (born December 12, 1952) is an English actress, most notable for playing strong villainessess in 1980s science fiction movies. ...

Deviations from the novel

• Dracula does not "youthen."
• Jonathan Harker is turned into a vampire. (The same fate befell this character in Dracula (1958 film).
• The characters of Quincey Morris and Dr. John Seward are cut altogether.
• Van Helsing seems to be English rather than Dutch.
• Dracula believes Lucy to be the re-incarnation (or at least the physical twin) of his lost love. He is enraged when she is killed.
• Upon rising, the undead Lucy immediately seeks out Arthur.
• Dracula is killed by Van Helsing with a wooden stake. Mina does not accompany Van Helsing and Holmwood to Transylvania. There is no "chase" to the castle.

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Trivia

• Several plot elements of this adaptation were also present in the storyline about Barnabas Collins in Dark Shadows, specifically that Lucy was Dracula's lost love reborn. A similar idea was used in Bram Stoker's Dracula, but then it was Mina who became the reincarnation.
• The initial broadcast in October, 1973 was pre-empted for an address by Richard Nixon. Instead it was broadcast in February, 1974.
• Jack Palance also worked with Curtis in a television production of The Strange Case of Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde, which co-starred Denholm Elliott who also played Dracula in the BBC production of Dracula (1968).
• The production re-used music from the Dark Shadows series as well.

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External Links

• Online Review
• Transcribed Script online