I think Bela Lugosi was a real sport about this character. True, it did kind of limit his future roles, but he did use it to please his fans. He even took on the role again in an Abbot and Castello comedy movie, and he even requested to be buried in the same Dracula cape and coat he wore in the movie.
Sadly, he got screwed over a lot because of his lack of business skills and the fact he was an immigrant. A lot of parts went to many other folks who were American by birth. Plus, he was very poorly managed and tossed away. He took the Abbott and Costello role only because he was broke and losing everything. He eventually begged to do more Dracula work, but by the time more films were made, he was passed over for a younger generation. His full biography is quite sad.
According to one documentary that talks about classic horror, the subject of Bela and his role as Dracula came. He continued to play Dracula in live theatre productions and one of his costars of the theatre who was still alive at the time of the recording said that she remembers Lugosi lamenting over his career and said to her that “Dracula is like Hamlet to me.” That’s really sad but also very true.
As a kid growing up in the 70's the TV stations played those old movies saturday afternoon. Watched them all 100 times, B. Lugosi, L. Chaney, Abbot and Costello, Creature From the Black Lagoon, you name it. Loved the werewolf, it really conveyed personal tragedy.
Same here except for I was a 80s kid. Also on Saturday nights we had a local channel here in Richmond VA that had a " Mad Scientist" and his hatchback helper host classic horror and sci-fi movies. I loved those movies and still watch them when I can to this day.
@@ronniespain18 Nice, it's cool when they had the novelty theme hosts like yours, El Vira, etc. Thinking back, I pine for the days of bat puppets on wires in those old dracula flicks.
I am really looking forward to the Universal Monsters theme park at Epic Universe in Florida (even though it will be years before I can afford to visit from Australia).
I agree with the first 2 actors but in wich movie did Frank Langella played dracula if i may ask. I do know he playes skeletor in the movie Heman masters of the universe from 1987
Thanks Minty for bringing to life these old horror movies. These movies made a real impact on me, giving me a thrill and the chills as I covered my eyes watching these movies. Nothing like old-fashioned technology transforming Bela to a bat, turning a man into a werewolf and watching a man unwrap himself to become the Invisible Man. Oh, what a time. Hope you can bring to life all those other great movies to include my favorites, 'Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein' and 'The Bride of Frankenstein."
Lugosi was always worried about being typecast after he was Dracula, but when he knew he was about to die, he made plans to be buried in his Dracula cape...and so he was
Definitely a Cult Film, Bela Lugosi pulled this off!! This Film also inspired future dracula films to come later!! Great job Mr. Minty!! Keep it comimg.
I have to agree with Minty about the actor portraying Renfield: that had to be most unhinged, truly amazing performance in the entire movie. Even now, when I recall Renfield's insane giggling, it gives me shivers!
Fun fact: The classic silent Dracula adaptation: "Nosferatu" got a remake in 1979 from Werner Herzog called *"Nosferatu The Vampyre"* and stars Klaus Kinski as Dracula (who originally played Reinfield in Jesús Franco's adaptation of "Dracula" starring Hammer's Dracula: Sir Christopher Lee). And in 2000, "Nosferatu" got a meta period comedy horror film called *"Shadow of The Vampire"* produced by Nicholas Cage's Saturn Films with Willem Dafoe as Max Schreck who IS a real vampire and John Malkovich as a cold-hearted version of German director F. W. Murnau.
Ed wood might be one of if not my favorite Depp movie. Even though it's not 100% historically accurate it gives you more respective on how much this role made and destroyed Legosi. Love it
the fact that Wood used old footage of Lugosi as Dracula before his death and used it in Plan 9 from Outer Space and then used an actor that covered his face with his cape and was a foot taller to finish the film says a lot about him :)
10-15 years ago I was digging through the bargain bin at Walmart....found nos feratu....but with the band type o-negative playing the soundtrack. (It had been cut up a bit to fit the pacing. But it was frickin beautiful how well it worked. Definitely the best 5 dollar bin score ever
I love Bela Lugosi as Dracula. Everyone in the cast including Van Helsing and Renfield were spot-on. However, the Spanish version had better camera techniques and he better Style.
@@DonMachado I felt fortunate enough to have had the pleasure of watching the Spanish version when Universal rerelease Dracula for DVD. One Side had the Bela Lugosi version and the other side had the Spanish version. Upon watching the Spanish version, I was blown away! It became my favorite version of the movie even to this day. Well worth it if you can find it.
Bela Lugosi was Dracula. Nobody else compares with him. Bela also could’ve been Frankenstein in 1931 but he couldn’t understand how he could shine as an actor underneath all of that make up that Frankenstein character had to wear. So Boris Karloff got the part. The rest is history. Bela Lugosi would end up playing the Frankenstein monster in the 1943 movie Frankenstein versus the Wolfman.
This film isn’t the most faithful adaptation of the novel but it’s still one of my favorite Dracula films and the restoration looks incredible for its age.
LMAO!!! My friends and I have used that exact same statement about several movies, “OMG, they’ve Lucased this movie” It’s ruined!! Love that someone as movie savvy as you is also using that. Long time fan!!
Renfield, laughing as he stood in the stairway from the hold the scariest bit in the movie. Like his mind was completely gone and pure evil took over. Max Schreck's vampire was even scarier than Bela Lugosi's vampire because the Schreck vampire looked like a reanimated corpse devoid of emotion. BTW - I wonder why there were armadillos at Dracula's castle. Anyone noticed that?
Many years ago, I had a happy summer night watching Dracula with The Philip Glass Quartet playing live accomplishment. It was at Wolftrap's outdoor stage and I swear I saw a bat 😁
Gavin Rose, .....Mark was right at the time the movie came out people did find Dracula Frightening. I understand horror fans of today would find it hard to believe but it was true and you have to remember the time period it came out was different then today's world. the movie was well done and proved you didn't need Blood , Guts, and nudity to make a good horror movie.
Modern day horror movies do nothing for me, however I can watch the classics over and over again, especially the Hammer Films movies. Would love to see you do a video on Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein.
Your videos are excellent, Mark! I never miss an episode. I particularly enjoyed this one. Dracula is nearly a century old now, and it is still a timeless classic. Keep up the excellent work!
13:10 - This was the early days of SOUND cinema. The movie industry was well-established long before 1931. As for soundtracks, westerns were the first "talkies" to use music scores that were not, themselves, musicals. Good job as usual.
Dracula with Bela Lugosi is my favorite horror movie I also loved the Rest of the Universial Monster movies. they were well done and proved you didn't need Blood , Guts and nudity to make a good horror movie.
Technically the original person was Prince Vlad III, Dracula was more or less a title that means Dragon. Tepes, pronounced Tepesh, just means Impaler, not his actual surname. Otherwise, yet another perfect video.
Have the DVD,VHS,and recorded on my DVR.....Greatest horror movie ever.I have all the old ones,Wolf Man,Invisible man.....And the Universal Book....My favorites........................Ralph Onofrio
the 1931 movie inspired 2 songs ... "Bela Lugosi's Dead" by Bauhaus and "The Ballad of Dwight Fry" by Alice Cooper. when Bela died in 1956, he was buried in a Dracula costume.
I never realized that Coppola got the idea for Dracula starting out as an old man and getting younger as he fed from the original concept for the 1931 production. Being the student of cinema he is, I'm sure that's where he got it from.
Fun fact: Bela Lugosi never wore fangs as Dracula or any other vampire role. The only time he wore fangs was in his role of Ygor in Son of Frankenstein and Ghost of Frankenstein. Carlos Villarias didn't wear fangs either. The sad thing about Dracula is we have gone from Bela Lugosi's iconic horror performance that terrified audiences for generations ... to sparkling eternal teenagers who couldn't scare a fly. Yeeesh....
05:11 coincidently, Schreck is also the german word for "fear" or "shock". Tim Burton also named the Villain of "Batman Returns" after the german actor Max Schreck. I guess you can translate his name as maximum shock!🤣
The scene in the carriage at the start where the locals warns renfeild of the vampire as the sun is going down always scared the life out of me as a child
Adjusted for inflation in 2024. The payment for the rights amounts to $790,110.69 The budget of $341,000.00 adjusted to 2024, $6,735,693.65. I find this kind of stuff fascinating. Fantastic video.
It's now been 92 years since it's theatrical release and it still give me chills. Thank you Bela for a great performance.
@@justindenney-hall5875 doubtful lol… I think they are just stating the age of the film and that it still holds up
@@benco.industries1254 if it gives him chills it gives it chills what's wrong with you moron?
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Thank you for spotlighting Dwight Frye's performance! His performances are too often overlooked.
I think Bela Lugosi was a real sport about this character. True, it did kind of limit his future roles, but he did use it to please his fans. He even took on the role again in an Abbot and Castello comedy movie, and he even requested to be buried in the same Dracula cape and coat he wore in the movie.
Sadly, he got screwed over a lot because of his lack of business skills and the fact he was an immigrant. A lot of parts went to many other folks who were American by birth. Plus, he was very poorly managed and tossed away. He took the Abbott and Costello role only because he was broke and losing everything. He eventually begged to do more Dracula work, but by the time more films were made, he was passed over for a younger generation. His full biography is quite sad.
@@TheDamianvain17 that is a sad story. Very sad. At the very least I hope Mr. Lugosi's spirit is aware of how memorable and celebrated he became.
Had a issue with MINTY channel that has played on my mind ...think I will have to expose this for future reasons.
According to one documentary that talks about classic horror, the subject of Bela and his role as Dracula came. He continued to play Dracula in live theatre productions and one of his costars of the theatre who was still alive at the time of the recording said that she remembers Lugosi lamenting over his career and said to her that “Dracula is like Hamlet to me.” That’s really sad but also very true.
Was not expecting this but, as usual, Mark has brought his insightfulness to it. More please.
His name is Mark?
@@itsagundam79 yes
@@itsagundam79 Mark Bishop. He lives in Perth. Western Australia if I am not mistaken.
As a kid growing up in the 70's the TV stations played those old movies saturday afternoon. Watched them all 100 times, B. Lugosi, L. Chaney, Abbot and Costello, Creature From the Black Lagoon, you name it. Loved the werewolf, it really conveyed personal tragedy.
Same here except for I was a 80s kid. Also on Saturday nights we had a local channel here in Richmond VA that had a " Mad Scientist" and his hatchback helper host classic horror and sci-fi movies. I loved those movies and still watch them when I can to this day.
@@ronniespain18 Nice, it's cool when they had the novelty theme hosts like yours, El Vira, etc. Thinking back, I pine for the days of bat puppets on wires in those old dracula flicks.
I am really looking forward to the Universal Monsters theme park at Epic Universe in Florida (even though it will be years before I can afford to visit from Australia).
Yup, exactly. I did, too. The death of local television really cost a lot.
The good old stuff. I have all the Universal monster movies on DVD.
Bela Lugosi, Christopher Lee, and Frank Langella ...my three favorite Draculas.
Don't leave out Gary Oldman in "Bran Stoker's Dracula." Gary Oldman really played a convincing and frightening Dracula.
@@bondgabebond4907 True ...he was so good.
I agree with the first 2 actors but in wich movie did Frank Langella played dracula if i may ask.
I do know he playes skeletor in the movie Heman masters of the universe from 1987
@@channeler231 Dracula (1979)
Thanks Minty for bringing to life these old horror movies. These movies made a real impact on me, giving me a thrill and the chills as I covered my eyes watching these movies. Nothing like old-fashioned technology transforming Bela to a bat, turning a man into a werewolf and watching a man unwrap himself to become the Invisible Man. Oh, what a time. Hope you can bring to life all those other great movies to include my favorites, 'Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein' and 'The Bride of Frankenstein."
Well done. Lugosi was laid to rest in costume as Dracula.
Bela lugosi Dracula was the most amazing one ever
He was too good in the part and ended up getting typecast in those roles...
Lugosi was always worried about being typecast after he was Dracula, but when he knew he was about to die, he made plans to be buried in his Dracula cape...and so he was
Peter Lorre and Vincent Price attended his funeral and Lorre asked
"do you think we should drive a stake through his heart? Just in case?"
☠️☠️😂
This is one of your finest episodes.
Impressive and comprehensive VLOG. Will watch DR31 later online.
Bell Lugosi was so enamored with his role, he was buried in his Dracula cape. Indeed he will forever be Dracula.
Bela Lugosi Jr. said that his father never expressed the wish to be buried in his Dracula cape and that was a family decision after his passing.
As soon as I saw this I immediately clicked it what a great movie to pick
Love rereading the book. And love Bela.
Spanish was great too like apple and orange.
Count Dankula did an Absolute Mad Lads on Sir Christopher Lee.... 2 of them actually, well deserved!
This movie looks even better in color!
Definitely a Cult Film, Bela Lugosi pulled this off!! This Film also inspired future dracula films to come later!! Great job Mr. Minty!! Keep it comimg.
I have to agree with Minty about the actor portraying Renfield: that had to be most unhinged, truly amazing performance in the entire movie. Even now, when I recall Renfield's insane giggling, it gives me shivers!
You should check out the Spanish Dracula Renfield. A very different take, but still unhinged.
Fun fact:
The classic silent Dracula adaptation: "Nosferatu" got a remake in 1979 from Werner Herzog called *"Nosferatu The Vampyre"* and stars Klaus Kinski as Dracula (who originally played Reinfield in Jesús Franco's adaptation of "Dracula" starring Hammer's Dracula: Sir Christopher Lee).
And in 2000, "Nosferatu" got a meta period comedy horror film called *"Shadow of The Vampire"* produced by Nicholas Cage's Saturn Films with Willem Dafoe as Max Schreck who IS a real vampire and John Malkovich as a cold-hearted version of German director F. W. Murnau.
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A wonderful overview of one of my favorite movies!
I hope I am not the only one who would enjoy learning about the classic flicks from back in The Golden Age.
This was a treat! 🦇
Ed wood might be one of if not my favorite Depp movie. Even though it's not 100% historically accurate it gives you more respective on how much this role made and destroyed Legosi. Love it
the fact that Wood used old footage of Lugosi as Dracula before his death and used it in Plan 9 from Outer Space and then used an actor that covered his face with his cape and was a foot taller to finish the film says a lot about him :)
My favorite version of Dracula. My very first Dracula movie.
10-15 years ago I was digging through the bargain bin at Walmart....found nos feratu....but with the band type o-negative playing the soundtrack. (It had been cut up a bit to fit the pacing. But it was frickin beautiful how well it worked.
Definitely the best 5 dollar bin score ever
I love Bela Lugosi as Dracula. Everyone in the cast including Van Helsing and Renfield were spot-on. However, the Spanish version had better camera techniques and he better Style.
Bela was a class act. Getting old is sad
I've never seen the Spanish version. It's definitely on the list now!
¿Por qué no los dos? 😉
@@DonMachado I felt fortunate enough to have had the pleasure of watching the Spanish version when Universal rerelease Dracula for DVD. One Side had the Bela Lugosi version and the other side had the Spanish version. Upon watching the Spanish version, I was blown away! It became my favorite version of the movie even to this day. Well worth it if you can find it.
Spanish version of Dracula Superior? That is your opinion
Bela Lugosi was Dracula. Nobody else compares with him. Bela also could’ve been Frankenstein in 1931 but he couldn’t understand how he could shine as an actor underneath all of that make up that Frankenstein character had to wear. So Boris Karloff got the part. The rest is history.
Bela Lugosi would end up playing the Frankenstein monster in the 1943 movie Frankenstein versus the Wolfman.
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This film isn’t the most faithful adaptation of the novel but it’s still one of my favorite Dracula films and the restoration looks incredible for its age.
Quote Bela Lugosi 'Dracula is Hamlet to me'
One of my favourite films of all time, thanks for sharing this insightful video I learned a few news things about Dracula from this!
LMAO!!! My friends and I have used that exact same statement about several movies,
“OMG, they’ve Lucased this movie”
It’s ruined!!
Love that someone as movie savvy as you is also using that. Long time fan!!
BONUS FACT: When Bela Lugosi passed away in 1956, he was buried in his Dracula costume, but the cape was a replica.
Great one Minty. Really enjoyed this one.
Last weekened my local theater had a double feature showing this movie & it was a really cool experience.
Interesting fact: Bela Lugosi was an ACTUAL vampire. That’s why all his scenes are shot inside.
If it wasn't for the depression, this movie would have been so much more epic. Still my go to Dracula
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Bela Lugosi is buried at the Holy Cross Cemetery in Los Angeles
I visit him every time I go there.
Fun fact when Christopher Lee was playing Dracula he wore one of his rings
Here's another one, Dracula and vampires didn't have fangs in this movie, and didn't really until Christopher Lee's Dracula series.
@@scottdoesntmatter4409correct 👍
This was one of your best Minty!
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Awesome!
I loved this. I clicked on my phone notification thinking i seen that it was Dracula Dead and loving it. I was not disappointed!
Renfield, laughing as he stood in the stairway from the hold the scariest bit in the movie. Like his mind was completely gone and pure evil took over. Max Schreck's vampire was even scarier than Bela Lugosi's vampire because the Schreck vampire looked like a reanimated corpse devoid of emotion.
BTW - I wonder why there were armadillos at Dracula's castle. Anyone noticed that?
I saw possums not armadillos.....unless we are referencing 2 separate scenes?
My God. I LOVE THIS FILM !!!!
My favorite dracula is interview with a vampire yet it would not be possible with out the original.
Many years ago, I had a happy summer night watching Dracula with The Philip Glass Quartet playing live accomplishment. It was at Wolftrap's outdoor stage and I swear I saw a bat 😁
Great video! I love this classic and influential film. Plus the house that your in is awesome too!
I love that you're using the Bram stokers movie soundtrack. This is my favorite.
The 4K physical media restoration of this is absolutely amazing.
One of the BEST Top 3
Thank you Minty! Dear god thats a classic. 🤠
Great analysis, Mark. I had no idea people at the time found it so frightening.
Gavin Rose, .....Mark was right at the time the movie came out people did find Dracula Frightening. I understand horror fans of today would find it hard to believe but it was true and you have to remember the time period it came out was different then today's world. the movie was well done and proved you didn't need Blood , Guts, and nudity to make a good horror movie.
@@patrickperalta59 True enough. I first saw it when I was about 10 and then read the novel. I thought the novel was a lot scarier.
Love your work. Is there a chance of giving Christopher Lee version of Dracula some love
Modern day horror movies do nothing for me, however I can watch the classics over and over again, especially the Hammer Films movies.
Would love to see you do a video on Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein.
The classics will never die. Long live Bela Legosi
Minty you've opened up Pandora's Box.....You know that you'll have to do the rest of the Universal Monsters....lol
RIP Bela Lugosi!! 🦇
I thought for a second there you were going to say Dracula dead and loving it.
Your videos are excellent, Mark! I never miss an episode. I particularly enjoyed this one. Dracula is nearly a century old now, and it is still a timeless classic. Keep up the excellent work!
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13:10 - This was the early days of SOUND cinema. The movie industry was well-established long before 1931.
As for soundtracks, westerns were the first "talkies" to use music scores that were not, themselves, musicals.
Good job as usual.
I totally agree it’s one of the most beautiful haunting shakespearean scary stories of history of literature Brian stokers Dracula 🧛♂️
I can’t think of Dracula without hearing that one organ piece of music
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Loved this episode! Great work!
Perhaps Frankenstein or wolfman episode, sometime?
Just watched this film for the first time yesterday. It was quite good!!
Dracula with Bela Lugosi is my favorite horror movie I also loved the Rest of the Universial Monster movies. they were well done and proved you didn't need Blood , Guts and nudity to make a good horror movie.
This will always be the best Dracula movie ever.
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The absolute BEST movie and actor combination for the character of Dracula!
And Bella Lugosi last movie Plan 9 from planet zero. Reprised his role. Sadly, it was his last..
What a great, new direction for your show! Perfect for film lovers everywhere
No dive off screen. A new Minty ending👍🏼😀
A great movie. Bela Lugosi played Dracula twice once in Dracula in (1931) second in Abbott and Costello meet Frankenstein in (1948).
Another great video. Thanks, Minty!
Technically the original person was Prince Vlad III, Dracula was more or less a title that means Dragon. Tepes, pronounced Tepesh, just means Impaler, not his actual surname. Otherwise, yet another perfect video.
Small correction, it means son of the Dragon. Dracul means dragon.
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Keep the Universal monster series going want to hear about them.all
Thanks, I enjoyed this.
Have the DVD,VHS,and recorded on my DVR.....Greatest horror movie ever.I have all the old ones,Wolf Man,Invisible man.....And the Universal Book....My favorites........................Ralph Onofrio
"GeorgeLucasing".....i like that verb.... LOL
You now need to do one on Blackula.
Sounds like Bela Lugosi was an early proponent of method acting.
the 1931 movie inspired 2 songs ... "Bela Lugosi's Dead" by Bauhaus and "The Ballad of Dwight Fry" by Alice Cooper.
when Bela died in 1956, he was buried in a Dracula costume.
Bela Lugosi's Dead is the ultimate goth song.
@@jamesage24 I have it on blue 12" vinyl and 12" picture disc too.
Love this one. Excellent choice. Hope to see more old ones. Thank you.
Excellent Minty! Loved this one very muchly! :D
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I never realized that Coppola got the idea for Dracula starting out as an old man and getting younger as he fed from the original concept for the 1931 production. Being the student of cinema he is, I'm sure that's where he got it from.
Great Video 👍👍 did you know that Bela Lugosi was Buried in one of Capes
Fun fact: Bela Lugosi never wore fangs as Dracula or any other vampire role. The only time he wore fangs was in his role of Ygor in Son of Frankenstein and Ghost of Frankenstein. Carlos Villarias didn't wear fangs either.
The sad thing about Dracula is we have gone from Bela Lugosi's iconic horror performance that terrified audiences for generations ... to sparkling eternal teenagers who couldn't scare a fly. Yeeesh....
05:11 coincidently, Schreck is also the german word for "fear" or "shock". Tim Burton also named the Villain of "Batman Returns" after the german actor Max Schreck. I guess you can translate his name as maximum shock!🤣
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Maximum Shock sounds like the name of a 90s superhero.
Safe to say that in 1931 there were several folks who had still not seen a movie.
Bela Lugosi was such a great actor but had such a sad end to his life......
Hitting the classics! Nice job Minty!
Audio without the "bathroom" echo is so much better. And, it is nice to you didn't get sick at the end of this one. Thank you.
This movie creeped me out as a kid. For some reason my parents had me watching really old movies like this, the original King Kong, etc
Abbot and Costello Meet Frankenstein was Lugosi's only other appearance as Dracula.
Love these old movies! Thank you, Minty. More, please!
Excellent video! 🖤
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I just watched this last night amazing my favorite Universal monster movie
I can't imagine those other people playing Dracula. Bela Lugosi was perfect!
Another fact is that Bela Lugosi was commissioned by Disney to pose as a model for Chernabog from Night on Bald Mountain of Fantasia.
Hey Mark. I'm surprised you didn't mention a reference to Batman Returns when you mentioned German actor Max Shreck.
The scene in the carriage at the start where the locals warns renfeild of the vampire as the sun is going down always scared the life out of me as a child
I have the DVD box containing the two movies. I agree that the Spanish one is really good. In some ways better.
Adjusted for inflation in 2024. The payment for the rights amounts to $790,110.69
The budget of $341,000.00 adjusted to 2024, $6,735,693.65. I find this kind of stuff fascinating. Fantastic video.