This beautiful and much-loved version is now available for a short time only from the BBC on its Special Interest label. This is a limited edition (apparently) and is region 0 coded according to the box so is should play anywhere in the world.
I remember this from my childhood: I was 13 when it was first on and boy did I drool over Judi Bowker! I saw it all three times it was on the BBC.
This is still the most majestic and magnetic production. Only the Badham '79 version comes close (or may be Hammer's Brides of Dracula from '60, still the most atmospheric vampire film ever made, if not actually about Drac himself) to capturing the magic of Stoker's original. Coppola's is a poor-man's version, a wasted opportunity and a bore! How anyone can possibly rate it beats me, but there's no accounting (or Count Dracula-ing!) for taste (especially not the taste of blood! Yuck!).
No more puns! Good luck getting hold of a copy on DVD of Louis Jourdan's Count Dracula while yea may. I'm sure they'll become priceless heirlooms to be passed from sire to son before the sun has set too many more times.
I remember this from my childhood: I was 13 when it was first on and boy did I drool over Judi Bowker! I saw it all three times it was on the BBC.
This is still the most majestic and magnetic production. Only the Badham '79 version comes close (or may be Hammer's Brides of Dracula from '60, still the most atmospheric vampire film ever made, if not actually about Drac himself) to capturing the magic of Stoker's original. Coppola's is a poor-man's version, a wasted opportunity and a bore! How anyone can possibly rate it beats me, but there's no accounting (or Count Dracula-ing!) for taste (especially not the taste of blood! Yuck!).
No more puns! Good luck getting hold of a copy on DVD of Louis Jourdan's Count Dracula while yea may. I'm sure they'll become priceless heirlooms to be passed from sire to son before the sun has set too many more times.