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When Badham was asked why he had also switched their names in his film, he said that he could not quite remember but that maybe he and Richter 'felt like Mina was a dopey name and that Lucy was kind of a nice name'. The play is also known for switching the names of the characters of Mina Harker and Lucy Westenra. Langella also appeared in the play for a limited run in the West End. Set in the Edwardian period, and strikingly designed by Edward Gorey, the play ran for over 900 performances between October 1977 and January 1980. Balderston, which ran on Broadway and also starred Langella in a Tony Award-nominated performance. Like Universal's earlier 1931 version starring Bela Lugosi, the screenplay for this adaptation of Bram Stoker's novel Dracula is based on the stage adaptation by Hamilton Deane and John L.

Laurence Olivier as Professor Abraham Van Helsing.

Lucy smiles enigmatically as she notices Dracula's cape blow away into the horizon, hinting that Dracula may have survived. Lucy is now apparently herself again, and Harker comforts her. Harker seizes his chance and hoists the count up through the cargo hold to the top of the ship's rigging, where he dies a painful death when the rays of the sun burn his body. Van Helsing uses his remaining strength to throw a hook attached to a rope, tied to the ship's rigging, into Dracula's back. Dracula now concentrates his attention on Harker. In the struggle, Van Helsing is fatally wounded by Dracula as he is impaled with the stake intended for the vampire. Van Helsing attempts to stake Dracula, but Lucy protests, waking Dracula. Below decks, Harker and Van Helsing find Dracula and Lucy sleeping in a coffin. Harker and Van Helsing board the ship carrying Dracula and Lucy as cargo bound for Romania. Dracula makes preparations to return to Transylvania with Lucy. Renfield apologizes and pleads for his life, but Dracula kills him by breaking his neck.

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Dracula escapes their attempts to kill him, bursts into the asylum to free the captive Lucy and also scolds his slave, Milo Renfield, for warning the others about him. Despite it being daylight, Dracula is still a very powerful adversary. They manage to locate his coffin within the grounds of Carfax Abbey, but the vampire is waiting for them. Now aided by Jonathan, the doctors realize that the only way to save Lucy is by destroying Dracula. The two doctors manage to give Lucy a blood transfusion to slow her descent into vampirism, but she remains under Dracula's spell. After a surreal 'wedding night' sequence, Lucy, like Mina before her, is now infected by Dracula's blood. She reveals herself to be in love with this foreign prince and openly offers herself to him as his bride. Lucy has in the meantime been summoned to Carfax Abbey, Dracula's new home. It is there that they encounter the ghastly form of an undead Mina and it is up to a distraught Van Helsing to destroy what remains of his daughter. Seward and Van Helsing investigate their suspicions and discover a roughly clawed opening within Mina's coffin, leading them to the local mines. He begins to worry about what fate his seemingly dead daughter may now have. Seward calls in Mina's father, Professor Abraham Van Helsing, who suspects what might have killed his daughter: a vampire. Lucy blames herself for Mina's death, as she had left her alone.Īt a loss for the cause of death, Dr.

Powerless, she watches her friend die, only to find wounds on her throat. The following morning, Lucy finds Mina awake in bed, struggling for breath. Later that night, while Lucy and Jonathan are having a secret rendezvous, Dracula reveals his true nature as he descends upon Mina to drink her blood. Less charmed by this handsome Romanian count is Jonathan Harker, Lucy's fiancé. At dinner, he proves to be a charming guest and leaves a strong impression on the hosts, especially Lucy. Jack Seward, whose clifftop mansion also serves as the local asylum. The Count visits Mina and her friends at the household of Lucy's father, Dr. Mina Van Helsing, who is visiting her friend Lucy Seward, discovers Dracula's body after his ship has run aground and rescues him. In Whitby, Yorkshire in 1913, Count Dracula arrives from Transylvania via the ship Demeter one stormy night. It won the 1979 Saturn Award for Best Horror Film. The film received mostly positive reviews and was a moderate box office success. The film was based on Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula and its 1924 stage adaptation, though much of Stoker's original plot was revised to make the film-which was advertised with the tagline 'A Love Story'-more romantic. The film starred Frank Langella in the title role as well as Laurence Olivier, Donald Pleasence and Kate Nelligan. Dracula is a 1979 gothic horror film directed by John Badham.

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