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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0794051415325
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Full Screen, NTSC
Label: BBC Warner
Manufacturer: BBC Warner
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: BBC Warner
Region Code: 1
Release Date: September 25, 2007
Running Time: 150 minutes
Sales Rank: 4403
Studio: BBC Warner
Theatrical Release Date: 1977
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Description:
This fan favorite three-part series from the BBC is now available on DVD for the first time! Louis Jourdan stars as the deliciously blood-thirsty Count Dracula in this version of Bram Stoker's horror classic. Keeping close to the original novel, the series begins with Jonathan Harker visiting the Count in Transylvania to help him with preparations to move to England. It is in the Count's castle that Jonathan becomes a prisoner, and discovers Dracula's true nature. Many scenes shot on location -- such as the Gothic graveyard of London's Highgate Cemetery -- add extra atmosphere to an already powerful production.
Amazon.com:
Devotees of vampire cinema have long esteemed this heretofore hard-to-see adaptation of Bram Stoker's novel, made for BBC-TV in 1977. Count Dracula puts Louis Jourdan in the fangs and cape, in a version subtitled--and played as--a Gothic romance. This is one of those 1970s TV productions that use film for exteriors and video for the interiors, a tactic that increases the general sense of cheapness about the whole thing (although the location stuff is good, including scenes on the cliffs of Whitby, the port town where Dracula comes to visit England). With 150 minutes to play with, the production has more of Stoker than many film versions include, although there's still some shuffling of the original. It's all a bit slow, and surprisingly cheesy at times, even with the occasional startling image: Dracula scooting bat-like down the side of his castle, or the vampire brides preparing to devour a baby (a scene cut from some subsequent showings of the series, but restored here). Frank Finlay makes a focused Van Helsing--a minimum of camping, thankfully--and Susan Penhaligon and Judi Bowker are respectively hot and cold as Lucy and Mina. Jourdan is effective, although he's off screen a lot and really gets his good bites in toward the end. You'll need some patience, but Jourdan drinks it dry. --Robert Horton
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - One of the best!
This by far s the best Dracula film I've seen. And I've seen them all from Bela Logosi to Frank Langella. Both were good but Louis Jourdan goes the extra mile and creates an intelligent, charming, yet menacing vampire. Along with excellent supporting cast, photography and script, this one is scary. It comes from BBC.
Rating:  - Worst Ever Made
I was sucked in by all the 5 star reviews. I wouldn't have given it 1 star but that is there are no negative stars. I love Dracula movies and thought I had seen them all. I was very excited to see a 5 star mini-series from BBC. This has to be the worst! Poor acting, bad filming and incredibly slow. Don't waste your money, there are so many more, much better. Try the one with Frank Langella if your looking for an older classic, even Bela Lugosi is better.
Rating: - I have already dined
Dracula has been reinterpreted, bastardized, glamourized and rewritten so many times that it's hard to even identify him as the charming, monstrous boyar bloodsucker.
But the closest thing to a faithful adaptation is the BBC's 1977 miniseries "Count Dracula", which changes only a few details from Bram Stoker's original novel. Louis Jourdan is a little too polished to be a truly faithful Dracula, but excellent acting and some wonderfully atmospheric direction elevate this above virtually every other movie made about dear ol' Vlad.
Real estate agent Jonathan Harker (Bosco Hogan) arrives in Transylvania, to arrange a London house sale to the charming, mysterious Count Dracula (Jourdan). But Harker is increasingly troubled by bizarre specters and Dracula's odd behavior, leading him to believe that Dracula is not actually human.
Meanwhile, his fiancee Mina Westenra (Judi Bowker) worries about Jonathan's absence, even as her sister Lucy (Susan Penhaligon) gets engaged to rising young Texan Quincey (Richard Barnes). But shortly after a ship piloted by a dead man crashes nearby, Lucy begins acting strangely -- and becomes ill from a mysterious loss of blood, and strange fang marks appear on her throat.
Lucy's ex-suitor John Seward (Mark Burns) calls in his old teacher Dr. Van Helsing (Frank Finlay). Despite their best efforts, Lucy dies -- but not before showing a savage sensual side. It's only then that Dr. Van Helsing reveals the true, ghastly identity ... Read More
Rating: - Great Movie
I bought this for my mom and she love's this movie and so do I, it's awesome and it is a good movie to buy for any vampire fans.
Rating: - The Best Version!
This 1977 BBC Mini Series is THE version to see if you really want to see and feel the novel on film. It is surely the most faithful to the novel itself. Louis Jourdan gave his career a powerful burst of new life with this atmospheric and beautifully acted version. His Dracula is sophisticated, arrogant,and terrifying. A MUST SEE for anyone who is a fan of the horror/suspense genre in general and Dracula films in particular. The Best.
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