calliopes_pen: (kcscribbler Holmes Watson travel friends)
calliopes_pen ([personal profile] calliopes_pen) wrote 2017-01-01 09:31 pm (UTC)

They were on a very limited budget due to it being a television production for the BBC, but I enjoyed it. They merged Jonathan and Renfield into one character, and Corin Redgrave seems to have been having the time of his life in the part. The tiny bit in the castle is mentioned while under hypnosis, and is almost silent save for Dracula's line and the hissing of the vampire women. Arthur and Quincey were jettisoned, for there wasn't time; Seward is engaged to Lucy.

You can find it in multiple parts on Youtube--you can also find it in its entirety in this Youtube upload, since they merged all those parts back into one. It's an hour and twenty minutes long.

From what I've learned, it was part of a series called Mystery And Imagination. Almost every other episode of the series was lost or destroyed by the BBC. Dracula survived, along with a handful of others which I've not yet watched.

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