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Dracula
The story of the strangest passion the world has ever known!
( Horror )

Dracula Poster

MPAA Rating:
Approved
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US Runtime: 75 min

Premiere Date:
Feb 12, 1931   [USA]		  
Director: Tod Browning
 
Writers: Bram Stoker   [novel]   [novel]
John L Balderston   [play]   [play]
Hamilton Deane   [play]   [play]
Garrett Fort
Louis Bromfield   [uncredited]
Max Cohen   [titles]   [uncredited]
Louis Stevens   [uncredited]
 
Cinematography: Karl Freund
 
Edited by: Milton Carruth
 
Production Company: Universal Pictures
 

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Filming Locations: (Now With Clickable Links To Location On Google Maps)

 
Tech Info:

Budget:
$355,000 (USA)
Color Info:
B&W
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1
Cinematographic Process:
Spherical
Film Negative Format:
35 mm
Printed Film Format:
35 mm
Shooting Dates:
29 Sep 1930 - 15 Nov 1930
Quotes:
  • Van Helsing: You'll die in torment if you die with innocent blood on your soul.
    Renfield: God will not damn a poor lunatic's soul. He knows that the powers of evil are too great for those with weak minds.
     
  • Renfield: Master, don't kill me. Let me live - punish me - torture me - but let me live. I can't face God with all those lives on my conscience, all that blood on my hands.
     
  • Dracula: Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make!
     
  • Lucy: Lofty timbers, the walls around are bare, echoing to our laughter as though the dead were there... Quaff a cup to the dead already, hooray for the next to die!
     
  • Dracula: For one who has not lived even a single lifetime, you're a wise man, Van Helsing.
     
Trivia:
  • The role of Dracula was originally meant for Lon Chaney.
     
  • Universal Studios commissioned a new musical score from composer Philip Glass. It premiered at The Brooklyn Academy of Music on 26 October 1999.
     
  • Bela Lugosi did not speak English at the time this film was made. He learned his lines phonetically.
     
  • A Spanish-language version of Dracula was filmed at night on the same set at the same time, with Spanish-speaking actors.
     
Credits Fun:

  • Joan Standing, who played Briggs, is credited as the maid, who was actually played by Moon Carroll.
     

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