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Dracula

Dracula

Dracula

1973
Horror
TV Movie
1h 38m
May, 1897. British real estate clerk Jonathan Harker travels to Transylvania to conduct the purchase of a property in Whitby for Count Dracula. But Dracula is a vampire and allows Jonathan to be taken by his three brides. Five weeks later Dr Van Helsing is called to Whitby to tend Jonathan's fiancée Mina Murray and then Lucy Westenra as they fall inexplicably ill. Tracing the source of the illness brings Van Helsing up against Dracula who believes Lucy to be the reincarnation of his love and is determined to make her immortally his. (moria.co.nz)

Directed by:

Dan Curtis
Dan-Curtis
31 total credits
Dan Curtis has 31 credits at Criticker, including: Burnt Offerings, Trilogy of Terror, The Night Strangler and Dracula

Writers:

Bram Stoker
Bram-Stoker
36 total credits
Bram Stoker has 36 credits at Criticker, including: Dracula, Nosferatu, Nosferatu the Vampyre, Dracula and Dracula: Dead and Loving It
,
Richard Matheson
Richard-Matheson
57 total credits
Richard Matheson has 57 credits at Criticker, including: I Am Legend, What Dreams May Come, Real Steel, Duel and Stir of Echoes

Starring:

Jack Palance
Jack-Palance
102 total credits
Volodymyr Palahniuk (Ukrainian: Володимир Палагнюк; February 18, 1919 - November 10, 2006), known professionally as Jack Palance, was an American film actor. During half a century of film and television appearances he was nominated for three Academy Awards, all as Best Actor in a Supporting Role, winning in 1991 for his role in City Slickers...(Wikipedia)
,
Pamela Brown
Pamela-Brown
21 total credits
Pamela Brown has 21 credits at Criticker, including: Fright Night, Cleopatra, I Know Where I'm Going!, Becket and Lust for Life
,
Fiona Lewis
Fiona-Lewis
13 total credits
Fiona Lewis has 13 credits at Criticker, including: Innerspace, Dr. Phibes Rises Again, Lisztomania, Dracula and Strange Behavior
,
Nigel Davenport
Nigel-Davenport
38 total credits
Nigel Davenport has 38 credits at Criticker, including: Chariots of Fire, A Man for All Seasons, Phase IV, Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes and Caravaggio
,
Simon Ward
Simon-Ward
22 total credits
Simon Ward has 22 credits at Criticker, including: Supergirl, The Tudors, The Four Musketeers, Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed and Zulu Dawn
,
Penelope Horner
Penelope-Horner
5 total credits
Penelope Horner has 5 credits at Criticker, including: Dracula, The Angry Silence, Hot Money Girl, Locker Sixty Nine and The Double Kill

Genre:

Horror

AKAs:

Bram Stoker's Dracula, Dan Curtis' Dracula

Country:

UK

Languages:

English, Russian, Hungarian

Dracula

1973
Horror
TV Movie
1h 38m
Avg Percentile 38.83% from 65 total ratings

Ratings & Reviews

(65)
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Rated 05 Mar 2020
67
50th
Likeable and makes a reasonable attempt at dealing faithfully with the source material. Palance is very watchable in the role, and the story moves along at a nice pace. Perhaps undone somewhat by its budget, but this is a decent diversion.
Rated 24 Jun 2022
50
14th
There are good visual elements, but overuse of daytime, lack of effective scoring and severe absence of acting talent hold this back. Palance isn't bad as the Count; it's everyone else that's the problem. That and clunky exposition, focusing on the wrong characters and dragging its heels in act 3. Scenes feed facts rather than pulling you into the narrative or developing characters, giving an experience akin to a wooden stage-play. Credit where credit's due: it's truer to the source than most.
Rated 23 Dec 2021
74
36th
The prod design, locations, & performances are uniformly of a quality you don't always see even in modern monster movies. At the same time, the pacing is a little too early 70s tv movie & the film doesn't change much of the novel's ill-suited-to-a-film structure (jumping from character to character w/ no arcs) & Curtis seems incapable of staging a decent fight. It's refreshing that Drac doesn't quickly signal his evil & his looking for a lost love is initially compelling, but then it's discarded
Rated 11 Nov 2013
73
38th
Jack Palance makes for one of the more animalistic portrayals of the Count in this fairly accurate adaptation; though it spirals more and more out of sync as it goes on. The production design is very good with some great on location shoots. Unfortunately this suffers from being lesser than the sum of its parts. One problem with it is carries over from the book but is compounded here by the low budget; that an all powerful creature is so easily overtaken.
Rated 24 Mar 2009
63
21st
While modestly mounted and often static, Curtis's version represents a fairly earnest attempt to remain relatively faithful to its source. The production design may be threadbare compared to Coppola's -- Drac's Carpathian castle looks downright cheery here -- but Palance, as might be expected, makes for a singularly intense Transylvanian, ably conveying Dracula's rage and bringing out the famed bloodsucker's inherent pimp qualities as he convincingly abuses his stable of distaff vamps.
Rated 11 Apr 2025
30
11th
Why does Jack Palance have an Oscar?
Rated 26 Oct 2022
70
46th
A surprisingly faithful adaptation of Stoker's novel that manages to include a lot of details that even longer adaptations tend to omit. (Drac's let the wolves out of the zoo!) Also enjoy how it approaches the material as a gothic soap opera. It's pretty spot-on and serves as a comfort zone for director Dan Curtis, creator of DARK SHADOWS, who also understands and appreciates the horror pedigree of his writer, Richard Matheson.
Rated 06 Aug 2020
86
22nd
Pretty good for a TV movie, but nothing was really added to this adaptation and the casting of Jack Palance as Count Dracula was odd.
Rated 04 Apr 2008
50
33rd
Jack Palance is too beefy to play a member of the undead. There are too many other problems for this movie to work, e.g., that the whole thing feels like a filmed stage play. A perfect example of how I used to never watch *any* TV movies while I was younger, 'cause even the productions with pedigree were just too cheesy

Cast & Info

Directed by:

Dan Curtis
Dan-Curtis
31 total credits
Dan Curtis has 31 credits at Criticker, including: Burnt Offerings, Trilogy of Terror, The Night Strangler and Dracula

Writers:

Bram Stoker
Bram-Stoker
36 total credits
Bram Stoker has 36 credits at Criticker, including: Dracula, Nosferatu, Nosferatu the Vampyre, Dracula and Dracula: Dead and Loving It
,
Richard Matheson
Richard-Matheson
57 total credits
Richard Matheson has 57 credits at Criticker, including: I Am Legend, What Dreams May Come, Real Steel, Duel and Stir of Echoes

Starring:

Jack Palance
Jack-Palance
102 total credits
Volodymyr Palahniuk (Ukrainian: Володимир Палагнюк; February 18, 1919 - November 10, 2006), known professionally as Jack Palance, was an American film actor. During half a century of film and television appearances he was nominated for three Academy Awards, all as Best Actor in a Supporting Role, winning in 1991 for his role in City Slickers...(Wikipedia)
,
Pamela Brown
Pamela-Brown
21 total credits
Pamela Brown has 21 credits at Criticker, including: Fright Night, Cleopatra, I Know Where I'm Going!, Becket and Lust for Life
,
Fiona Lewis
Fiona-Lewis
13 total credits
Fiona Lewis has 13 credits at Criticker, including: Innerspace, Dr. Phibes Rises Again, Lisztomania, Dracula and Strange Behavior
,
Nigel Davenport
Nigel-Davenport
38 total credits
Nigel Davenport has 38 credits at Criticker, including: Chariots of Fire, A Man for All Seasons, Phase IV, Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes and Caravaggio
,
Simon Ward
Simon-Ward
22 total credits
Simon Ward has 22 credits at Criticker, including: Supergirl, The Tudors, The Four Musketeers, Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed and Zulu Dawn
,
Penelope Horner
Penelope-Horner
5 total credits
Penelope Horner has 5 credits at Criticker, including: Dracula, The Angry Silence, Hot Money Girl, Locker Sixty Nine and The Double Kill

Genre:

Horror

AKAs:

Bram Stoker's Dracula, Dan Curtis' Dracula

Country:

UK

Languages:

English, Russian, Hungarian
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