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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9786305078180
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 6305078181
Label: Image Entertainment
Manufacturer: Image Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Letterbox
Publisher: Image Entertainment
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 06, 1998
Running Time: 109 minutes
Sales Rank: 78026
Studio: Image Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: July 20, 1979
Editorial Review:
Description:
This stylish production of the classic horror tale has Frank Langella repeating his electrifying, award-winning stage performance as the bloodthirsty Count and Laurence Olivier as his arch-nemesis, Van Helsing.
Amazon.com:
Chalk this one up as something that seemed like a good idea at the time. Frank Langella had just taken Broadway by storm in a revival of the play based on Bram Stoker's classic vampire novel. He was tall, elegant, and almost painfully romantic--all qualities that failed to translate to this garish, tarted-up film version. The story remains the same, if told in greater length than in Bela Lugosi's version. The film even offered Laurence Olivier as vampire-hunter Van Helsing (in one of several roles he played during the period that required a middle-European accent) and a young Kate Nelligan as the woman whose love (and blood) Dracula most wants. But director John Badham, working from W.D. Richter's clunky script, makes a hash of most of it, relying on special effects to do the heavy lifting. --Marshall Fine
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - FRANK LANGELLA AS DRACULA
OH MY GOODNESS.HE WAS THE BEST ONE EVER PLAYED,BESIDES BEING BEAUTIFUL AND CHARMING HE WAS SUCH A GREAT PERFORMER,ALTHOUGH THEY SHOULD HAVE MADE A SWITCH IN THE LADIES,LUCY SHOULD HAVE BEEN THE GIRL HE KILLED, AND THE ONE WHO WAS LUCY SHOULDVE GOTTEN THE AX,BUT THE PERFORMANCES IN ALL WAS EXCEPTIONALLY GRAND. LANGELLA I WANTED TO MARRY U FROM THE TIME I SEEN THIS PERFORMANCE. SMACK!!!!!
Rating: - Simply the best Dracula.
This is simply the best Dracula film ever made. Atmospheric, lavish, romantic gothic and erotic. There are other Dracula films that have charms of their own, but this brings a new and unique presentation to the classical theatrical Dracula. If you want fangs and gore, get a Hammer Films version.
Rating: - Dracula a Classic!
This movie is an excellent vampire movie. A must own for vampire fans. It's similar to the movie done by Bela Lugosi. But different and more gross(cuz of the bug thing). Frank Langella at his best.
Rating: - A Love Story with a Bite
World-class actors in a famous story set against incredible backgrounds with a John Williams score makes this my favorite Dracula movie. Frank Langella's sensuous portrayal of the vampire is intelligent and fun to watch as he crosses foils with Laurence Olivier's Van Helsing in the classic battle for Kate Nelligan's soul as Lucy. Donald Pleasance balances out the action with his gift for understatement and wit. This is a must-see version.
Rating: - Gothic, Sexy, Langella a Delicious Delight
This 1979 version of Dracula takes us away from the supernatural and presents the infamous Count as an extremely sexy leading man.
We are introduced to Lucy Seward (Kate Nelligan) and Mina Van Helsing (Jan francis). Lucy is happily engaged to Johnathan (Trevor Eve) and successful in her own right, a lawyer in training who has already been offered a job by a firm.
Then along comes a shipwreck with (you guessed it) Drac and ONLY Drac on board, having feasted on the crew ... Read More
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