Dracula (1968) Picspam

[lost_spook]

As promised/threatened! A picspam of ITV's 1968 version of Dracula, made as part of their Mystery & Imagination series, with Denholm Elliott, James Maxwell, Suzanne Neve, Bernard Archard, Corin Redgrave, Susan George and Joan Hickson.

This was actually the first version of the original Dracula I'd ever seen/read, so I can't comment on changes

Comments

[lost_spook]

The hand-holding cracks me up. It's relatively restrained in Dracula, but ever since that time that Henry VII randomly held Katherine Gordon's hand for an entire scene, I can't help but notice it.

Heh, that sounds like GK Chesterton. Denholm Elliott was not really an obvious Dracula, but he was fine! The sunglasses were only in one scene, though, thankfully, or it would have been impossible to take him seriously. :-) (Er. Because obviously I was taking this very seriously otherwise... /o\)

Good night! o/

[john_amend_all]

The man in dark glasses is Dr Bull in The Man Who Was Thursday.

[oonaseckar]

Oh, somebody remembers Ultraviolet besides me! *wistful* It was glorious. Nobody pines for an unattainable love like Jack Davenport.

[singeaddams]

The handholding commentary killed me dead, too. I loved all your remarks and I gotta see this.

[lost_spook]

:-D

Give James Maxwell anything approaching a love scene, and there will be not much in the way of proper kissing and stuff, but people's hands will thoroughly adored. Dracula's fairly restrained, not like the time in Shadow of the Tower when Henry VII randomly held the hand of Perkin Warbeck's wife for an entire scene.

I suspect this Dracula is much less entertaining for people who aren't me. A contemporary TV critic apparently reckoned it was the longest 90 minutes of TV he'd seen since the last party political broadcast.

[singeaddams]

Snerrrk! That's his prop and he's gonna use it!

I suspect this Dracula is much less entertaining for people who aren't me.

Oh, I dunno. I'm a classic TV fan in general and a Dark Shadows fan in particular so I might be able to handle it. Is it on You Tube or will I have to Netflix it?

[lost_spook]

Heh. When I mentioned it the other day, someone found it on YouTube - here. Don't blame if you find yourself thinking fondly of watching Party Political Broadcasts afterwards. ;-p

[jaxomsride]

It always gets me that the vampire hunter gors after the vampire at night - far safer surely during the day and the vampire is asleep in the coffin. Of course sneaking around unnoticed is harder then.

[lost_spook]

I think that Van Helsing wasn't sure which grave Dracula was hiding in, so he had to hang about and watch him come back, but I couldn't swear to it. With Lucy, he had no such excuse. He just wanted to hang about graveyards and traumatise Dr Seward. :-)

You're probably right, though - the authorities tend to frown on people desecrating graves!

[kaffy_r]

You know I love your picspams, and I love your commentary, and they make grey days much brighter for me. Also, handholding is, as the young folks say, awesomesauce.

[lost_spook]

Aw, thank you! I don't know what to say about the hand-holding...

[kaffy_r]

Well, I like to think of hand holding as an essentially healthy sport. So long as the hand is given back, which I think even James Maxwell would agree is the sporting way to go.

[lost_spook]

:-)

And, yes, I'm just amused because I, er, thought I hadn't mentioned it that much and that he didn't really do any epic hand-holding in Dracula... :lol: (And, yes, it's quite endearing really. Unless directed to do anything else, it seems that whenever he got a love scene, he kept safely to people's hands. I think the bit that's funniest about it is that I noticed it first when he was Henry VII and I just never thought about Henry VII going round holding people's hands!)

[a_phoenixdragon]

Dude. Need to see this and scroll your commentary at the same time *snorfle*

*SQUISH*

[lost_spook]

Aw, I don't know, some shaky old TV is best left alone! :lol:

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