Mark of the Vampire (1935) on Netflix
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Sir Karell Borotyn is found dead in his Prague house, two wounds on his neck. Baron Otto and Dr. Doskil blame a vampire; Inspector Neumann scoffs. Professor Zelen arrives to shield Irena.
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Plot summary
Sir Karell Borotyn is found dead in his house in Prague, with two small wounds on his neck. Baron Otto von Zinden, a friend of the dead man, and Dr. Doskil, the doctor who examines the body, are convinced a vampire killed him, and they name Count Mora and his daughter Luna. Inspector Neumann of the Prague police refuses to believe any of it. Irena, Sir Karell's daughter, is engaged to be married, and the Count is said to want her next. Zelen, who studies vampires and the occult, comes to Prague to keep her from harm, while the police offer Baron Otto little help.
Cast
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Mark of the Vampire (1935)
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- Carroll Borland had toured in a stage version of Dracula with Bela Lugosi, but she answered the casting call for the younger vampire role without knowing he was involved and never mentioned their earlier work together.
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Director Tod Browning kept the film's twist ending secret from the cast until shooting ended, believing their performances would suffer if they knew they were not playing real vampires.SPOILER
Browning considered but rejected an alternate ending in which Professor Zelen gets a telegram from the hired actors saying they missed their train, implying the vampires were real; Borland and Lugosi found the twist "absurd."- Makeup artist William J. Tuttle said the crew tried to avoid Tod Browning's productions because he worked them until they dropped from exhaustion, and grumbled "Mr. Chaney would have done it better" when they erred.
- Early reviews listed running times near 80 minutes, suggesting MGM cut Mark of the Vampire down to 60 minutes after early previews, which fed speculation about the deleted footage.
- Some sources claimed MGM cut hints of incest between Bela Lugosi's Count Mora and his daughter Luna, including a screenplay explanation that Mora was made a vampire for that crime and shot himself, shown by a blood spot on Lugosi's temple.
