The Return of Dracula
The Return of Dracula

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Count Dracula kills a passenger on a train in Transylvania and assumes his identity. He travels to a small community in California where the Mayberrys are expecting their cousin from Europe. His strange behavior, sleeping all day and going out at night are surprising to young miss Rachel Mayberry. A policeman from Europe comes to investigate while Rachel's best friend Jenny dies unexpectedly. And the count plans on giving Rachel the gift of eternal life...... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in The Return of Dracula:

Francis Lederer
Norma Eberhardt
Ray Stricklyn
John Wengraf
Virginia Vincent
Gage Clarke

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Count Dracula kills a passenger on a train in Transylvania and assumes his identity. He travels to a small community in California where the Mayberrys are expecting their cousin from Europe. His strange behavior, sleeping all day and going out at night are surprising to young miss Rachel Mayberry. A policeman from Europe comes to investigate while Rachel's best friend Jenny dies unexpectedly. And the count plans on giving Rachel the gift of eternal life...

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Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) - 8/10 by John BeifussA Cold War horror movie in which vampirism functions as a metaphor for Communism and the forces of anti-Christianity, with Dracula a shadow version of Jesus who performs miracles (he restores a blind girl's sight) and promises immortality...
Ozus' World Movie Reviews - 6/10 by Dennis SchwartzA satisfying low-budget schlock horror flick that has Dracula searching to rebuild his army of the undead in the New World.
User Review - 8/10 by Bruce BFrancis Lederer, Played Count Dracula, posing as Bellac Gordal, Though the Name Dracula was never mentioned in the movie. But its an outstanding Black & White movie, and I am sure back in the day it frighten a few people. If you enjoy Black & White Films I would add this one to the collection.
User Review - 8/10 by Allan CThe synopsis on here doesn't remind me of the movie at all, I think it just isn't worded well, the movie is about Dracula taking the place of this distant uncle who's supposed to be visiting his family in America, and the daughter starts to fall in love with him, not realizing it's just his vampire powers, or that he is a vampire. It's a cool movie, I'd love to see it again, I saw it on TV.
User Review - 8/10 by Van RNo, "Hell Canyon Outlaws" director Paul Landres' "The Return of Dracula" has nothing to do with either the Universal Pictures franchise or the Hammer Film series. Instead, United Artists distributed this Gramercy Pictures theatrical release, and "The Return of Dracula" qualifies as an imaginative but minor chiller on a low budget. Landres and scenarist Pat Fielder, who collaborated earlier on the lackluster movie "The Vampire," have taken liberties with the formula Bram Stoker story while channeling the Alfred Hitchcock serial killer thriller "Shadow of a Doubt" as an American family opens their doors to their immigrant cousin, Bellac Gordal, who is none other than the infamous Count. Interestingly, the filmmakers do not acknowledge Stoker in the opening credits, though the name of Stokerâ??s vampire is mentioned only three times. Dracula rides in a train at one point and later crosses the Atlantic Ocean on an ocean-liner. This is the kind of vampire movie where the undead one can freely enter any place without an invitation. Some vampire lore dictates that the vampire cannot enter a room without the permission of its host. One of the coolest things about this micro-budget effort is the use of dry ice inside the coffins when we gaze upon the vampires. Francis Lederer makes an effectively villainous Dracula with a conspicuous foreign accent. Indeed, nobody ever calls him Dracula to his face and he has no crazy mad assistant. He hails from the Balkans area of eastern Europe. He doesn't dress as lavishly as either Bela Lugosi or Christopher Lee, but he is not derelict. He likes to materialize out of a cloud of mist and the same is true of the poor girl that he transforms into his vampire bride. This Dracula is also shape-shifter, and he turns into a white wolf at one point. Although â??Isle of the Deadâ?? lenser Jack Mackenzie photographed the film predominantly in black and white, Landres inserts an interesting shot that is in color when our heroes stake a vampire. The last-minute ending is quite ironic, too! â??The Return of Draculaâ?? opens with the following narration as two cars cruise through the countryside on the way to a cemetery: â??It is a known fact that there existed in Central Europe a Count Dracula. Though human in appearance and cultured in manner, he was, in truth, a thing undead, a force of evil, a vampire feeding on the blood of innocent people, he turned them into his own kind, thus spreading his evil domination even wider. The attempts to find and destroy this evil were never proven completely successful. And so the search continues to this very day.â?? Like Bram Stokerâ??s novel, â??The Return of Draculaâ?? finds our undead protagonist looking for somewhere different to stalk his prey. A half-dozen men led by John Merriman (John Wengraf of â??The Pride and the Passionâ??) climb out of the two cars and enter Draculaâ??s tomb to kill him, but they find it empty! The action shifts to a railway station as Bellac Gordal (Norbert Schiller of â??Sign of the Paganâ??) explains that living in the Balkans stifles his sense of artistic freedom and so he bids his immediate family farewell to board a train to America where he will stay with his cousin Cora Mayberry (Greta Granstedt of â??Nocturneâ??) and her family in Carleton, California. When Bellac enters his coach, he meets a mysterious gentleman reading a Berlin newspaper. Not long after he packs his luggage in an upper berth, he turns to scream as the other passenger assaults him. Director Paul Landres edits Bellacâ??s death scene so that when he screams, the action switches to the locomotive and its eldritch whistle piercing the night with its shriek, the perfect visual and aural metaphor for Bellacâ??s terror. What makes this set-up so interesting is that Dracula later confides to Coraâ??s daughter Rachel (Norma Eberhardt of â??Live Fast, Die Youngâ??) that he left Central Europe because he felt that â??My life has been confined. Thatâ??s why I came here . . . for freedom. I must have it.â?? These lines of dialogue makes â??The Return of Draculaâ?? a Cold War era vampire chiller. Unmistakably, the Count is bailing out of the Balkans because of Communism.
User Review - 6/10 by Joel HReasonably entertaining B-movie, which seems as much inspired by Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt as by the Dracula mythos. Francis Lederer won't make you say, "Bela who?" but he does bring some genuine charisma to the title role. The repeated use of the public domain "Dies Irae" as Dracula's theme is a nice, schlocky touch.
User Review - 6/10 by Hank YOk, not the best old vampire movie, but a nice diversion from haunted castles and European accents. You can't forget this death scene ... no matter how much you may want to.
User Review - 6/10 by Andy FA surprisingly competent Dracula movie, better than many of the Hammer films. There is nothing really new in this (other than Dracula coming to America) but it is decently made and watched at 3am with the rain pouring (as I did) it ticked all the boxes. A forgotten gem.

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