Year – 1974 Decade – 1970s Director – Dan Curtis Cinematographer – Oswald Morris Genre – Horror Keywords – Vampires; Dracula; 1970s horror; TV Movies Studio – CBS Shooting Locations […]
Year – 1974
Decade – 1970s
Director – Dan Curtis
Cinematographer – Oswald Morris
Genre – Horror
Keywords – Vampires; Dracula; 1970s horror; TV Movies
Studio – CBS
Shooting Locations – England; Yugoslavia
Format – 35mm film with spherical lenses
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The Movie
Three years after the end of his long-running Gothic horror soap opera Dark Shadows, Dan Curtis returned to the world of the vampire with this CBS TV Movie adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Penned by Richard Matheson and starring an unusually sedate Jack Palance in the titular role, the film was originally set to premier in October of 1973 but was preempted when Richard Nixon addressed the nation after Vice President Spiro Agnew’s resignation. The film was finally broadcast in its entirety in February of 1974.
It received a second life in 1992, when it was re-broadcast two weeks after Francis Ford Coppola’s identically named Bram Stoker’s Dracula hit theaters. Subsequent home viewing releases have typically come under the name Dan Curtis’ Dracula.
Nigel Davenport’s Van Helsing stakes one of Dracula’s victims (played by Fiona Lewis).
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