The Return of Dracula

1958
PG
1h 17m

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5.7/10

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Norma Eberhardt, Francis Lederer, Ray Stricklyn, Virginia Vincent, and John Wengraf in The Return of Dracula (1958)

After a vampire leaves his native Balkans, he murders a Czech artist, assumes his identity, and moves in with the dead man's American cousins.

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After a vampire leaves his native Balkans, he murders a Czech artist, assumes his identity, and moves in with the dead man's American cousins.After a vampire leaves his native Balkans, he murders a Czech artist, assumes his identity, and moves in with the dead man's American cousins.After a vampire leaves his native Balkans, he murders a Czech artist, assumes his identity, and moves in with the dead man's American cousins.

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IMDb RATING

5.7/10

1.6K

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County Clerk
(uncredited)

Joseph Hamilton

Man Reporting Murder at Station
(uncredited)

Robert Lynn

Dr. Paul Beecher
(uncredited)

John McNamara

Sheriff Bicknell
(uncredited)

Belle Mitchell

Cornelia
(uncredited)

Norbert Schiller

Bellack Gordal
(uncredited)

Charles Tannen

Mack Bryant - Dept. of Immigration
(uncredited)

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Trivia
Ray Stricklyn noted in his autobiography "Angels & Demons" that co-star Norma Eberhardt had one blue eye and one brown eye. If you look carefully at a few of her close-ups, even in this black-and-white film, you can notice the difference.

Goofs
When Rachel goes to the window in her bedroom, the crucifix is shown outside of her nightgown, but when she leans out the window the crucifix isn't shown, then it is when she goes back in the bedroom.

Quotes
[first lines]
narrator: It is a known fact that there existed in Central Europe a Count Dracula. Though human in appearance and cultured in manner, he was in truth a thing undead... a force of evil... a vampire. Feeding on the blood of innocent people, he turned them into his own kind, thus spreading his evil dominion ever wider. The attempts to find and destroy this evil were never proven fully successful, and so the search continues to this very day.

Connections
Edited into FrightMare Theater: The Return of Dracula (2017)

Soundtracks
DIES IRAE
(from Gregorian Chants)
Arranged by Gerald Fried

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6/10

Francis Lederer This Time.

Paul Landres directed this better-than-expected updating of the Dracula legend. Francis Lederer(quite good) plays Count Dracula, who flees his native land when vampire-hunters threaten him. He kills a Czech artist on a train, and assumes his identity as "Cousin Bellac", who visits the man's family in America, where he stays. Young Rachel Mayberry(played by Norma Eberhardt) becomes infatuated with her "cousin", who is both suave and mysterious, which makes her boyfriend jealous. Meanwhile, Dracula proceeds to seduce a local blind girl named Jenny, with tragic consequences, which climaxes with a pursuit in a spooky cave... Good horror tale cleverly uses the premise of "Shadow Of A Doubt" to fine effect, resulting in an atmospheric Halloween-setting, with a good score. Not a classic, but better than the title would suggest.

Trivia note: Lederer would "return" as Dracula in a fine episode of the "Night Gallery" TV series called 'The Devil Is Not Mocked'.