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Dracula is a 1979 horror film starring Frank Langella as Count Dracula. The film was directed by John Badham and the cinematography was by Gilbert Taylor. The original music score is composed by renowned composer John Williams.

The film also starred Laurence Olivier as Professor Abraham Van Helsing, Donald Pleasence as Dr. Jack Seward, Kate Nelligan as Lucy Seward, Trevor Eve as Jonathan Harker, Tony Haygarth as Milo Renfield, and Jan Francis as Mina Van Helsing. It won the 1979 Saturn Award for Best Horror Film.

Like Universal's earlier 1931 version starring Bela Lugosi, the screenplay for this adaptation of Bram Stoker's novel Dracula is based on the stage adaptation by Hamilton Deane and John L. Balderston, which ran on Broadway and also starred Langella in a Tony Award-nominated performance. Notable for its Edwardian setting, and strikingly designed by Edward Gorey, the play ran for over 900 performances between October 1977 and January 1980. It is also notable for switching the character's roles of Mina Harker and Lucy Westenra.

The film was shot on location in England: at Shepperton Studios and Black Park, Buckinghamshire. Cornwall doubled for the majority of the exterior Whitby scenes; Tintagel (for Seward's Asylum), and St Michael's Mount (for Carfax Abbey).

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Cast: Laurence Olivier, Donald Pleasence, Kate Nelligan, Trevor Eve, Sylvester McCoy, Jan Francis, Tony Haygarth, Frank Langella, Janine Duvitski, Teddy Turner
Director: John Badham
Genre: Drama, Horror, Romance
Release Date: July 13, 1979
MPAA Rating: R
DVD Release Date: October 19, 2004
Runtime: 109 minutes
Studio: Universal Studios

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review by Madpenguin. May 26, 2011

posted in Movie Hype

Dracula - The guy who confuses hickies with real bites!

During a vicious storm, a ship on its way from Romania crashes on the shore of England. One of the ships passengers, Count Dracula (Frank Langella) of Romania is rescued by a young woman named Mina Van Helsing (Jan Francis). After saving the Count's life, he returns to thank her later. Mina soon falls ill and tragedy strikes. Her father Abraham Van Helsing (Laurence Olivier) returns to England from his trip determined to put an end to the evil he has discovered.-summary … more

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review by IsraelDrazin. March 13, 2011

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An interesting version of the gothic tale

Dracula, who must avoid sunlight and travel in a crate, who can transform himself into a bat, wolf, or mist, sails to England, and kills everyone on board the ship as a wolf. The ship crashes into the English shore. He is invited into a house for supper. He abuses the invitation by hypnotizing a young beautiful girl to remove her headache, and gains control of her will. That night, he climbs the walls of her house, enters her bedroom, and sucks her blood through her neck, which she allows. The next … more

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