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DVD ~ Frank Langella
4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)

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  • Actors: Frank Langella, Laurence Olivier, Donald Pleasence, Kate Nelligan, Trevor Eve
  • Directors: John Badham
  • Writers: Bram Stoker, Hamilton Deane, John L. Balderston, W.D. Richter
  • Producers: Marvin Mirisch, Tom Pevsner, Walter Mirisch
  • Format: Colour, DVD-Video, NTSC
  • Language Dutch, English, Romanian
  • Region: Region 1 (US and Canada DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: R (Restricted) (US MPAA rating. See details.)
  • Studio: Universal Studios
  • DVD Release Date: 19 Oct 2004
  • Run Time: 109 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B0002KVULG
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 33,338 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Dracula, 1 Dec 2004
By Nj Walton "jonhalwalton" (uk) - See all my reviews
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Absolutly brilliant film. A romance for sure, but still a horror with great atmosphere in the right time scale; not these remakes in modern times, they just don't work.
Frank Langella is excellent as is every other famous actor in the cast. Buy it.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic, 6 Dec 2005
This review is from: Dracula [DVD] [1979] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] (DVD)
I have seen this film a 100 times and I will see it 100 times more, Fantastic version of this tale of horror. Frank Langella is superb as the debonair but chilling Count Dracula. The Atmosphere is eerie, and the effects are spine chillingly brilliant. Well done to all involved..FABULOUS!
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4.0 out of 5 stars A superior and intriguing failure, 21 Dec 2007
By Trevor Willsmer (London, England) - See all my reviews
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There's more than just a touch of disco to Frank Langella's costumes in John Badham's 1979 Dracula, and along with the copious amounts of dry ice accompanying his seductions and a Maurice Binder laser light love scene it occasionally hovers on the edge of turning into Saturday Bite Fever. But this is more of a lavishly mounted old-school interpretation, with W.D. Richter's screenplay reworking both the novel and the stage play to interesting effect: the film is set entirely in England, bracketed by two violent scenes at sea, and Dracula here is more of a serial seducer than a creature of the night. But by emphasizing the Byronic seductiveness of the role there's never an real sense of menace or threat: this Dracula is more like that smooth git who steals your girlfriend at a nightclub than the embodiment of evil, and it's only in the snarling violence of the finale that you get a sense of the animal beneath. That the forces of good are such a lifeless lot doesn't help much either: Laurence Olivier isn't quite as embarrassingly OTT as my memory had him, and Donald Pleasance's habit of eating in his every scene isn't as tiresome on the small screen as the large, but along with Trevor Eve's ey-upp lad northern lawyer type Jonathan Harker they don't exactly have you cheering them on. But despite the problems, the films is full of great little moments, such as the Count clawing away at the putty in a window to get to his first victim, boasts beautiful production design (the shipwreck and Carfax Abbey are particularly impressive) and has a wonderful romantic score by John Williams. The eagle-eyed will spot future Doctor Who and holder of the Guinness World Record for stuffing live ferrets down his trousers (it's genuine: look it up) Sylvester McCoy in a cough-and-a-spit part.

The transfer, sadly, loses the rich colour of the theatrical release for the prefered desaturated look Badham originally wanted - one of those occasions where you can't help but agree with the studio, I'm afraid. The retrospective documentary on theRegion 1 NTSC DVD is interesting and informative, but the photo gallery is poorly presented and the absence of the original trailer is disappointing.
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