Count Dracula (1970) on Netflix
Jonathan Harker stops in Bistritz on his way to Castle Dracula to close a property deal. A woman warns him against continuing, and at the castle his host casts no reflection.
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Plot summary
On his way from London to Transylvania to close a property deal for Count Dracula, the lawyer Jonathan Harker stops for the night in Bistritz. A concerned lady there warns him not to go on. He takes her fears for peasant superstition and travels ahead, unnerved by the way people look at him. At the Borgo Pass Dracula's coachman collects him and drives him to Castle Dracula. There a gaunt old man greets him and takes him to his bedchamber, where Harker notices that his host casts no reflection.
Cast
- Fred Williamsas Jonathan Harker
- Jeannine Mestreas Vampire Woman (uncredited)
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Count Dracula (1970)
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- Jesús Franco first wanted Vincent Price as Van Helsing, but Price was under contract to American International Pictures; Dennis Price was then ruled out by health issues, so producer Harry Alan Towers brought in his regular actor Herbert Lom.
- Herbert Lom joined so late that all his scenes as Van Helsing were shot separately from Christopher Lee's Dracula, which is why the two never appear in the same shot together.
- The scene of reanimated taxidermied animals was reportedly improvised by Jesús Franco and achieved with out-of-frame stagehands turning the animals' bodies towards the camera.
- Count Dracula was the first film version of Bram Stoker's novel in which Dracula starts as an old man and becomes younger as he feeds upon fresh blood.
- Pere Portabella's 1970 experimental film Cuadecuc, vampir was shot behind the scenes of Count Dracula, using candid footage of the stars during the production.
