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Transylvanian vampire Count Dracula bends a naive real estate agent to his will, then takes up residence at a London estate where he sleeps in his coffin by day and searches for potential victims by night.
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Garrett Fort => *(Play)* Bram Stoker => *(Novel)* Bela Lugosi => Count Dracula Helen Chandler => Mina David Manners => John Harker Dwight Frye => Renfield Edward Van Sloan => Van Helsing Herbert Bunston => Doctor Seward Frances Dade => Lucy Charles K. Gerrard => Martin (as Charles Gerrard) Joan Standing => Maid Wyndham Standing => Surgeon (uncredited) Michael Visaroff => Innkeeper (uncredited)
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`~2731~` was so eager to repeat his stage success and play the Count Dracula role for the film version, that he agreed to a contract paying him $500 per week for a seven week shooting schedule, a paltry sum even during the days of the Depression. In fact, his salary was only one quarter that of actor `~11890~` who played Jonathan Harker. However, this fact might be misleading. Although `~11890~` earned $2,000 a week, he likely didn't pocket all of that money. Manners was under contract to Warner Bros./First National, which had "loaned out" their contract player at a rate considerably higher than the performers' weekly salary. Hence, much of Manners' salary went directly to Warner Bros./First National. The original release featured an epilogue with `~5617~` talking to the audience about what they have just seen. This was removed for the 1936 re-release and is now assumed to be lost. The later !~frankenstein_1931~!~Frankenstein (1931)~! similarly copied this model by featuring a prologue. Among the living creatures seen in Dracula's castle in Transylvania are opossums, armadillos, and an insect known as a Jerusalem Cricket (Stenopalmatus Fuscus). This insect was common in Southern California, which may explain its cameo in the film. The inclusion of armadillos was due to the fact that armadillos had occasionally been seen digging in graveyards, which led to the mistaken belief that they would dig their way into coffins and eat the cadavers. In the scene where Dracula and Renfield are traveling to London by boat, the footage shown is borrowed from a Universal silent film called @%The Storm Breaker (1925)%@. Silent films were projected at a different frames-per-second speed from that later adopted for sound films, accounting for the jerky movements and quicker-than-normal action of these shots. Dracula's castle was a painting on glass in front of the camera. The coach traveling along the road was real but the background was not. While it is rumored that `~2731~` could not speak English very well, and had to learn his lines phonetically, this is not true. Lugosi was speaking English as well as he ever would by the time this was filmed. Dracula never once blinks his eyes, an effect that enhances the undead character's otherworldly aura, abetted by `~2731~`'s famous, menacing stare. Cinematographer `~19732~` achieved the effect of Dracula's hypnotic stare by aiming two pencil-spot-lights into actor `~2731~`'s eyes. Although it was his most famous role, `~2731~` played Dracula only once more on screen, in the comedy @%Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)%@. However, he played Dracula-like characters in movies such as @%The Return of the Vampire (1943)%@. A Spanish-language version, @%Drácula (1931)%@, was filmed at night on the same set at the same time, with Spanish-speaking actors. The original Broadway production of @%"Dracula"%@ starring `~2731~` opened at the Fulton Theater on October 5, 1927 and ran for 261 performances. Also in the original cast was `~5617~` as Van Helsing and `~19735~` as Doctor Seward. These three were the only actors from the original 1927 Broadway production to repeat their roles in the film. After playing Renfield, `~5619~` would find himself typecast. He found himself restricted to playing eccentric or jittery characters that had a manic edge to them - or criminal lunatic types. There was no real musical soundtrack in the film because it was believed that, with sound being such a recent innovation in films, the audience would not accept hearing music in a scene if there was no explanation for it being there (e.g., the orchestra playing off camera when Dracula meets Mina at the theatre). When she died on June 12, 2014 at the age of 104, `~Carla Laemmle~` was the last surviving cast member of this film. She played the role of the ungainly teenage coach passenger reading the history of Transylvania aloud. She rightly claimed that she was the first woman in talking pictures to have the first line of dialogue in a horror film. SPOILER:When this film was re-released after the Production Code was strictly enforced in 1934, many edits and deletions were ordered by censors. The censors removed Renfield's scream as he is being killed and Dracula's moan as the stake is driven through his heart. These two audio deletions were later restored.:SPOILER SPOILER:The studio did not want the scene where Dracula attacks Renfield to be filmed, due to the perceived gay subtext of the situation. A memo was sent to the director stating "Dracula is only to attack women.":SPOILER
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