Dracula - 75th Anniversary Edition (2-DVD)

DVD Features:

• 2-Disc Set
• Region 1; USA & Canada
• Note: Disc 2 in this set contains DRACULA (1931) Spanish Version.
• Digipak
• Full Frame - 1.33
• Audio:

Disc 1: DRACULA (1931)

Disc 2: DRACULA (1931) Spanish Version (104, Minutes)

Description by OLDIES.com:

The legend of Dracula continues in this gripping, masterful 2-disc edition of cinema's most ominous vampire, digitally remastered for the 75th Anniversary Edition. Relive the horror, the mystery, and the intrigue of the original 1931 vampire masterpiece starring Bela Lugosi and directed by Tod Browning. The inspiration for hundreds of subsequent remakes and adaptations, this classic film launched the Hollywood horror genre with its eerie passion, shadowy atmosphere, and thrilling cinematography. The children of the night are calling ...

Product Description:

This is the first screen version of Bram Stoker's famous tale based on the smash hit stage production. Count Dracula (Bela Lugosi) arrives in London and immediately works to enrapture and transform into vampires young Lucy Weston (Frances Dade) and her friend Mina Seward (Helen Chandler). After he succeeds in turning Lucy, and Mina's health suddenly deteriorates, Mina's father (Herbert Bunston), calls in a specialist, Professor Abraham Van Helsing (Edward Van Sloan). Van Helsing quickly recognizes Dracula's vampirism, and sets about saving Mina (and in the process, becomes Dracula's archenemy). The film, arguably the most influential of the legend's film versions, launched Lugosi's career in horror movies and forever invited vampires across Hollywood's threshold.

Plot Keywords:

Based On A Novel | Classic | Horror Classic | Horror Movies | Recommended | Sci-Fi / Horror / Fantasy | Vampires | Vintage

Production Notes:

• Bela Lugosi played the role of Count Dracula in the stage play.
• DRACULA was added to the Library of Congress National Film Registry in 2000.
• This film was followed by a sequel in 1936, "Dracula's Daughter" directed by Lambert Hillyer. Tod Browning's "Dracula" was also followed by many other film versions of the Bram Stoker tale. There was the classic Hammer "Dracula" made in 1958 starring Christopher Lee and directed by Terence Fisher. That was followed in 1973 by a version starring Jack Palance in the title role. It was produced in Great Britain and directed by Dan Curtis. John Badham made a 1979 "Dracula" starring Frank Langella as the Count and Laurence Olivier as Van Helsing. The most recent version is Francis Ford Coppola's 1992 extravaganza entitled "Bram Stoker's Dracula" starring Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder and Anthony Hopkins. The granddaddy of them all, of course, is F.W. Murnau's silent 1922 masterpiece "Nosferatu" starring Max Schreck as an unforgettably creepy Dracula. It was remade in color with sound by Werner Herzog in 1979 with Klaus Kinski in the title role.

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DVD Details:

• Feature Commentary with Film Historian David J. Shal and Steve Haberman, Screenwriter of Dracula: Dead and Loving It
  
• Score by Philip Glass, performed by The Kronos Quartet
  
• Featurettes: Lugosi: The Dark Prince and The Road to Dracula
  
• Dracula (1931) Spanish Version with Introduction by Lupita Tovar Kohner
  
• Documentary: Universal Horror
  
• Audio: English
  
• Subtitles: English SDH, Espanol, Francais
  
• Format: DVD
  
• Genre: Horror
  
• Label: Universal
  
• Originally Released in: 1931
  
• Number of Discs: 2
  
• Rated: Not Rated
  
• Run Time: 1 hours, 15 minutes
  
• Video: Color
  
• Region: Region 1 encoding; USA & Canada.
  
• Release Date: September 26, 2006
  
• OLDIES.com Sales Rank: 4,423
  
• Item Number: MHV 61031022D
  
• UPC: 025193102225
  
• Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx); Counts as 2 items for International Shipping.