Drácula (1931)
Drácula (1931)
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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Carlos Villarías
Conde Drácula
Lupita Tovar
Eva
Barry Norton
Juan Harker
Pablo Álvarez Rubio
Renfield
Eduardo Arozamena
Van Helsing
José Soriano Viosca
Doctor Seward
Carmen Guerrero
Lucía
John L. Balderston
Writer
Amelia Senisterra
Marta
Hamilton Deane
Writer
Manuel Arbó
Martín
Geraldine Dvorak
Bride of Dracula (in catacombs) (archive footage) (uncredited)
Garrett Fort
Writer
Julia Bejarano
Gives necklace to Renfield for good luck
Dwight Frye
Renfield (archive footage) (uncredited)
George Melford
Director
Bela Lugosi
Count Dracula (archive footage) (uncredited)
Cornelia Thaw
Bride of Dracula (in catacombs) (archive footage) (uncredited)
Bram Stoker
Writer
Dorothy Tree
Bride of Dracula (in catacombs) (archive footage) (uncredited)
Baltasar Fernández Cué
Writer
Carl Laemmle Jr.
Producer
George Robinson
Cinematographer
John George
Scientist (uncredited)
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Dracula is a 1931 Spanish-language American horror film directed by George Melford. The film is based on both the novel Dracula by Bram Stoker and the play Dracula by Hamilton Deane and John L. Balderston. The film is about Renfield (Pablo Alvarez Rubio), who travels to Translyvania to visit Conde Drácula (Carlos Villarías). He is drugged by the Count and becomes his minion. The two travel to England, where Drácula begins to seduce Lucía Weston (Carmen Guerrero) as she becomes his first victim. This leads Professor Van Helsing (Eduardo Arozamena) to investigate, who confirms that Drácula is a vampire.
Dracula was made as part of Hollywood studios' attempts to make films for foreign-language audiences. By 1930, Universal had focused primarily on developing Spanish-language films for the foreign market. Filming began on October 10, 1930, where it was shot on the same sets as Tod Browning's production of Dracula. Director Melford watched the footage of the same day and applied what he saw to film his own version.
The film was released in Cuba in 1931 and for a long time was forgotten, only mentioned briefly by some horror film historians in the 1960s and 1970s. It received greater attention after a print for the film was found in New Jersey. A screening at the Museum of Modern Art in 1978 led to a popular home video release on VHS in 1992. Critical reception to this film often compared the two versions of Dracula with some critics weighing the pros and cons of both based on the explicitness of the Spanish version with its costumes and scenes, the film's length, and the performance of Carlos Villarías as Count Dracula. In 2015, Dracula was selected for the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".