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Dracula (1979)
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Chalk this one up as something that seemed like a good idea at the time. Frank Langella had just taken Broadway by storm in a revival of the play based on Bram Stoker's classic vampire novel. He was tall, elegant, and almost painfully romantic--all qualities that failed to translate to this garish, tarted-up film version. The story remains the same, if told in greater length than in Bela Lugosi's version. The film even offered Laurence Olivier as vampire-hunter Van Helsing (in one of several roles he played during the period that required a middle-European accent) and a young Kate Nelligan as the woman whose love (and blood) Dracula most...
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John Badham directed Roy Schneider in the great Blue Thunder, and here he directs stage actor Frank Langella in a Gothic tale of horror. With Oscar-winner (Hamlet) and nine-time Oscar-nominee Laurence Olivier as Professor Van Helsing, this is a classic telling of Bram Stoker's tale that amuses and thrills.
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(complete Dracula review by Movie Addict)
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