Dracula (1973a)

Country of Origin: UK
Date of Original Broadcast: 1973
Number of Seasons: N/A
Total Number of Episodes: 1
Average Episode Running Times: 100 mins
Format: colour
Sound:

PRODUCTION
Production Companies: Dan Curtis Productions / Latglen Ltd / Universal TV
Producer: Dan Curtis
Associate Producer: Robert Singer
Production Supervisor: Tim Hampton

SCRIPT
Script: Richard Matheson
Novel: Bram Stoker

DIRECTION
Director: Dan Curtis
1st Assistant Director: Derek Kavanagh

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Oswald Morris
Camera Operator: James Turrell
Focus Assistant: Maurice Arnold

EDITING AND POST PRODUCTION
Editor: Richard A. Harris
Editor (UK): Tony Palk
Assistant Editor: Jack Davies

MUSIC
Music: Robert Cobert

SOUND
Sound Mixer: Roy Charmon
Dubbing Mixer: Gerry Humphreys
Dubbing Editor: Mike Le Mare

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up: Paul Rabiger
Hair: Bobbie Smith
Costume Designer: Ruth Myers
Wardrobe Supervisor: Brian Owen-Smith

SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Effects: Kit West

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: Trevor Williams

MISCELLANEOUS
Continuity: Angela Allen
Assistant to the Producer: Rutj Kennedy

LOCATIONS
Locations: England, UK; Yugoslavia
Location Manager: Stuart Freeman

CASTING
Casting: Boaty Boatwright Baker

CAST
Jack Palance (Count Dracula)
Simon Ward (Arthur Holmwood)
Nigel Davenport (Doctor Van Helsing)
Pamela Brown (Mrs Westenra)
Fiona Lewis (Lucy Westerna)
Penelope Horner (Mina Murray)
Murray Brown (Jonathan Harker)
Virginia Wetherall, Barbara Lindley, Sarah Douglas (Dracula's wives)
George Pravda (innkeeper)
Hanna-Maria Pravda (innkeeper's wife)
Reg Lye (zookeeper)
Fred Stone (priest)
Roy Spencer (Whitby Inn clerk)
John Challis (Stockton-on-Tees clerk)
Nigel Gregory Midvale shipping clerk)
John Pennington (Richmond shipping clerk)
Martin Read (coastguard)
Gita Denise (Madam Kristoff)
Sandra Caron (Whitby Inn maid (uncredited))

Jonathan Harker travels to remote Transylvania to administer the sale of some property in England to the Count Dracula. But once inside the Count's imposing castle, Harker realises too late that Dracula is really a vampire - and he soon has his eye on Harker's fiancée, Mina.

Palance gives one of his better performances in this unusual and often under-rated adaptation that re-interprets Stoker as a romance way before Coppola's overblown Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992). Departing significantly from previous - and indeed subsequent - versions in that it is mostly shot in daylight, Curtis' retelling of the tale adds nothing new to the existing screen mythology, but does what it does with some style and reverence. (Full Review)

USA
Television Distributor: CBS Television
Video Distributor: Thrillervideo; MPI Home Video; IVE
Laserdisc Distributor: IVE; MPI Home Video (CLV 6353)

Finland
Rating: K-18

1974
February
8 USA - television broadcast

1976
February
20: Finland - theatrical release

1992
December
23: USA - laserdisc distributor (MPI Home Video (CLV 6353))

Bram Stoker's Dracula
Kreivi Dracula - Finnish title

SEE ALSO
El conde Drácula (1970)
Count Dracula (1977)
Dracula (1931)
Drácula (1931)
Dracula (1958)
Dracula (1968)
Dracula (1973b)
Dracula (1979)
Dracula (1980)
Dracula (1992)
Dracula 2000 (2000)
Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995)
Drakula halála (1921)
Noroi no yakata: Chi o suu me (1971)
Nosferatu (2002)
Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922)
Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht (1979)

MAGAZINES

Video Watchdog no.15 pp.11-12 (USA)
review

BOOKS

Hoffman's Guide to SF, Horror and Fantasy Movies p.112
credits, review

Horror and Science Fiction Films Volume II p.108
credits

The Illustrated Vampire Movie Guide p.72
credits, review

OTHER SOURCES

screen
credits

book into film, castles, dracula, vampires

Last Updated: 1 January, 2009