Dracula is a 1931 American horror film, directed by Tod Browning and starring the Hungarian-born actor Bela Lugosi as Count Dracula. It is based on a stage play by Hamilton Deane and John L. Baldeston, which was in turn based on the novel Dracula by the Irish author Bram Stoker. In the film, the ancient vampire Count Dracula arrives in England and begins to prey upon the virtuous young Mina.
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| - Dracula is a 1931 American horror film, directed by Tod Browning and starring the Hungarian-born actor Bela Lugosi as Count Dracula. It is based on a stage play by Hamilton Deane and John L. Baldeston, which was in turn based on the novel Dracula by the Irish author Bram Stoker. In the film, the ancient vampire Count Dracula arrives in England and begins to prey upon the virtuous young Mina.
- Dracula is an American horror film released in 1931 by Universal Pictures. Produced by Carl Laemmle, Jr. and directed by Tod Browning, it adapts the original 1897 Bram Stoker novel Dracula as well as the 1924 stage adaptation of Dracula by John L. Balderston and Hamilton Deane. It is the first authorized film adaptation of Dracula as well as the first horror film "talkie". Dracula launched the career of actor Béla Lugosi, who went on to star in dozens of genre films overs the next two decades.
- After a harrowing ride through the Carpathian mountains in eastern Europe, Renfield enters castle Dracula to finalize the transferral of Carfax Abbey in London to Count Dracula, who is in actuality a vampire. Renfield is drugged by the eerily hypnotic count, and turned into one of his thralls, protecting him during his sea voyage to London. After sucking the blood and turning the young Lucy Weston into a vampire, Dracula turns his attention to her friend Mina Seward, daughter of Dr. Seward who then calls in a specialist, Dr. Van Helsing, to diagnose the sudden deterioration of Mina's health. Van Helsing, realizing that Dracula is indeed a vampire, tries to prepare Mina's fiance, John Harker, and Dr. Seward for what is to come and the measures that will have to be taken to prevent Mina from
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- The story of the strangest passion the world has ever known!
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| - Bela Lugosi, Helen Chandler, David Manners, Edward Van Sloan
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- Garret Fort, Dudley Murphy, Louis Bromfield, Tod Browning, Max Cohen and Louis Stevens. Based on the play by Hamilton Deane and the novel by [[w:c:literature:Bram Stoker
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| - Dracula is a 1931 American horror film, directed by Tod Browning and starring the Hungarian-born actor Bela Lugosi as Count Dracula. It is based on a stage play by Hamilton Deane and John L. Baldeston, which was in turn based on the novel Dracula by the Irish author Bram Stoker. In the film, the ancient vampire Count Dracula arrives in England and begins to prey upon the virtuous young Mina.
- After a harrowing ride through the Carpathian mountains in eastern Europe, Renfield enters castle Dracula to finalize the transferral of Carfax Abbey in London to Count Dracula, who is in actuality a vampire. Renfield is drugged by the eerily hypnotic count, and turned into one of his thralls, protecting him during his sea voyage to London. After sucking the blood and turning the young Lucy Weston into a vampire, Dracula turns his attention to her friend Mina Seward, daughter of Dr. Seward who then calls in a specialist, Dr. Van Helsing, to diagnose the sudden deterioration of Mina's health. Van Helsing, realizing that Dracula is indeed a vampire, tries to prepare Mina's fiance, John Harker, and Dr. Seward for what is to come and the measures that will have to be taken to prevent Mina from becoming one of the undead.
- Dracula is an American horror film released in 1931 by Universal Pictures. Produced by Carl Laemmle, Jr. and directed by Tod Browning, it adapts the original 1897 Bram Stoker novel Dracula as well as the 1924 stage adaptation of Dracula by John L. Balderston and Hamilton Deane. It is the first authorized film adaptation of Dracula as well as the first horror film "talkie". Dracula launched the career of actor Béla Lugosi, who went on to star in dozens of genre films overs the next two decades.
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