Dracula is a 1931 American pre-Code vampire film directed and co-produced by Tod Browning from a screenplay written by Garrett Fort and starring Bela Lugosi in the title role. It is based on the 1924
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Bela Lugosi as Dracula
Bela Lugosi as Count Dracula
Edward Van Sloan (Van Helsing) showing Lugosi a mirror.
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Count Dracula is the title character and main antagonist of Bram Stoker's gothic horror novel Dracula. He is considered the prototypical and archetypal vampire in subsequent works of fiction. Aspects
Dracula (1931 English-language film)
…1924 stage play Dracula by Hamilton Deane and John L. Balderston, which in turn is adapted from the 1897 novel Dracula by Bram Stoker. Lugosi portrays Count Dracula, a vampire who emigrates from Transylvania to England and preys upon the blood of living victims, including a young man's fiancée. Produced and distributed…
Cover of Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories, a collection of short stories authored by Bram Stoker
Ruins of Whitby Abbey in Whitby which features in the novel. As a creature resembling a large dog which came ashore at the Whitby headland, Count Dracula runs up the 199 steps to the graveyard of St Mary's Church in the shadow of the abbey ruins.
Christopher Lee starred as Dracula in numerous Hammer Horror films. Shown here is the 1958 film Dracula. Lee fixed the image of the vampire bearing dual elongated fangs in popular culture.