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

[oonaseckar]

So Harker has a healthy protein-rich diet of bugs, bugs and more bugs, then? (groo.)

I do kind of expect the Victorians to be very pro-May/December pairings, generally in a fairly pervy way. Mostly from a TV dramatisation of the life of Elizabeth Barratt Browning, I think. ew.)

Re: facial hair - did they manage to lever a werewolf in there too, with Van Helsing?

Hehehehe, you funny. I think you should voiceover E4 trailers.

[lost_spook]

Oh, yep. :-)

I do kind of expect the Victorians to be very pro-May/December pairings, generally in a fairly pervy way.

Oh, yes. I mean, not always, but definitely!

:lol: A new career, although I suppose I'd have to watch new TV to write nonsense for that, so it probably wouldn't work out.

(No, no werewolves. At least, not that Van Helsing's telling.)

[liadtbunny]

Lols - you'd send to buy the DVD if I hadn't already:)

I don't think 'The Fall of the House of Usher' is particularly scary. I think their might be some incest or double standards or something in ITV version. I like the barmy French silent version (downloadable off internet archive so it's legal-ish). 'The Open Door' is more spooky I think *scrapes memory*.

That ring's ostentatious Drac! - they should have been suspicious off the back of the ring;p I was ring spotting recently, prob 'Reign of Terror'.

[lost_spook]

You should know by now how misleading my picspams are! I mostly do them for the ones that were slightly less good but could be enjoyably mocked. :-)

Or things that contain David Collings so that we can all admire his hair and shake our heads/laugh ourselves silly over his career choices.

[liadtbunny]

Yes, you nearly made me demand my copy of 'Children of the Damned' back:)

Admiring David Collings hair is something the world should be doing! Imagine what boring things we'd have to watch if he didn't exist. Worse than having to fork out money for a cream pie;)

[lost_spook]

Sometimes my picspams are "how I entertain myself while watching dull things" (definitely CotD, but not Dracula, 'cos I did actually quite enjoy that). It is kind of reassuring to know that when I let people know how these things work inside my mind, that they find them entertaining too. Less good if they expect the actual thing to be like that...

A cosmos without David Collings doesn't bear thinking about! ;-p

[hellboy]

By the time you got to "but this is what happens when you kiss girls" I was howling. Whatever, they hate me at this doctor's office anyway.

Love you commentary, my only sadness is that Corin Redgrave seems that he had a very minute role in this show, and I do love me some Redgraves. Oh well!

[lost_spook]

:-D I'm sorry. or I'm not? Whichever is most appropriate.

And thank you! I'm sorry about Corin Redgrave; he was in it more than my picspam makes it appear, but I just don't seem to have collected many good pics of him - he was mainly very mad with wild hair!!