Kevin Beswick Christopher Lee was, no doubt, one of the redeeming qualities of the Prequels. But why in the name of all that is good and holy did they let Hayden Christensen kill him?
Fun Fact: Christopher Lee originally play for Grand Moff Tarkin in Star Wars but he rejected it which the role gave to Peter Cushing. He later regretted it and he got redeemed when he played Count Dooku in the Prequels years later. Funny that both actors are real-life best friends. RIP Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing. ♥️
No one who watches this film for the first time today can understand the wallop it packed when it came out in 1957. There was nothing like it ever see on the screen before, and this scared the daylights out of audiences. REALLY! My brother and I saw it back then and can attest to how powerful and frightening this film was for everybody - teenagers as well as adults. No one expected this kind of film, so well done, in Color too!
I attended a festival screening of this film years ago with Christopher Lee there for a Q and A afterwards. A stately gentleman seated in a plaid fireside smoking chair onstage, he was greeted and applauded like a sports legend. He sat graciously puffing his pipe for the next three minutes waiting for the applause to end. He discussed his beginnings in the business, what a fan he was of Peter Cushing and how Cushing fought to get him the Dracula role. He was Boris Karloff's neighbor! Lastly, an audience member swore he saw a tear streak Dracula's left cheek as Van Helsing forced him back into the sun's rays and asked about it. Lee agreed it was. Dracula crying? Lee attested Dracula was a soul in constant pain not from vampirism but from condemnation to commit compulsive acts that saddened and repulsed him. He finds redemptive qualities in any character he plays. If he didn't, how did Dracula's decaying demise leave some audience members sobbing ( I heard them sniffling too). The effects were state of the art in 1958 and Lee was the first Dracula who showed fangs, blood , and reddened eyes onscreen. He said he couldn't see a thing wearing those red contacts. Landmark shock in those days.
When I was a boy in the 1980s and getting obsessed with Hammer horrors through late-night TV screenings here in UK, my late Mum told me she went to see this film in 1958 (she was aged early 20s at the time) and when Dracula was destroyed at the end, she cried. His demise in this film still carries a powerful charge of horror and tragedy. Lots of ladies in late 1950s fell in love with Christopher Lee's incarnation of Dracula, he stirred lots of forbidden sexy feelings in the buttoned-up 1950s! ❤
The best ever Dracula films ever in my opinion, loved Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee, when it comes to Van Helsing and Dracula nobody can touch these two actors, period!! 😀 😀 RIP Sir Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing 🙏🙏
RIP Peter Cushing (May 26, 1913 - August 11, 1994), aged 81 RIP Michael Gough (November 23, 1916 - March 17, 2011), aged 94 RIP Sir Christopher Lee (May 27, 1922 - June 7, 2015), aged 93 RIP Melissa Stribling (November 7, 1926 - March 22, 1992), aged 65 You will be remembered as legends.
It’s so funny reading the comments and seeing how the young look at these two as Star Wars actors playing Dracula and Van Helsing. I saw each Star Wars movie when it first came out and MY thought was “oh look there’s Van Helsing!” and later it was “well there’s Dracula”. I am now 62; I was a big fan of all the Hammer movies starting when I was about 7 and saw Star Wars when I was 15.
The Hammer Christopher Lee Dracula movies were absolutely outstanding. No one has ever done Dracula better in my opinion..These films were the best gothic horror ever made..
The expression on Peter Cushing's face. God, what a brilliant, complex mixture of horror, pity, and relief. Yes, it's Hammer, yes it's campy, but the acting is head and hands above what you'll see in many straight-up dramas today. I love the fact that Cushing doesn't celebrate, he just seems profoundly sad at the existence of evil in the world. And all of this after a pulse-pounding, intensely cinematic fight scene.
The best ending to any Dracula ever. That athletic run along the table to dive into the curtains exemplifies the active striking down of the power of evil by intelligence through instant action.
The creativity and ingenuity of the talented people at Hammer is demonstrated here beautifully. The final chase through Dracula's castle utilises only one set, redressed and relit for each shot. One large room with a single staircase.That's all. It also doubles for the cemetery earlier in the movie. Just amazing what they did with very little money.
And that kids was how Grand Moff Tarkin blasted Count Dooku to dust with a prototype version of the Death Star Laser R.I.P Sir Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing. Friends reunited at last
I really love the music in this scene, it's like a racing heart-beat spliced with 'flight of the bumble-bee', but it just works for how intense the scene is. The music alone never fails to get my heart racing
I just read Peter Cushing actually did the leap to the curtains himself to expose Christopher Lee’s Dracula to the sunlight! I was always glad to see Peter Cushing in movies. He was perfect to play Lord Tarkin in Star Wars. Taking movie evil to the next level by ordering the destruction of a planet with its entire population in an explosion!
I really appreciate how this built off of the Dracula movies before it. I love the Lugosi version, the Spanish one and Nosferatu but they all had admittedly anti climatic endings with the vampire being killed rather easily. Here it’s a full physical battle between good and evil.
Love the grainy atmosphere of these classic horrors.....and the music always adds to the terror and menace as the tension builds , and your fears grow......classic storytelling
The dramaticl musical score and dark gothic atmosphere really make this film stand out, it hangs heavily over the film,a real classic that future DRACULA films have tried(and failed!) to live up too.
Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee is like a humanized version of Tom & Jerry, they've been in so many horror movies together as both the hero and the villain. If they ever got their own box set, it would've been labeled, *Man Vs. Boogeyman: The Many Battles of Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee!*
It is my notion that, no Horror Movie is complete without these two magnificent actors, Sir Peter Cushing and Sir Christopher Lee...they had something about them that made these Hammer Horror movies so likeable!!
My sister was 12 when she saw the B&W version of this film in a neighborhood theatre. She couldn't quit screaming...had nightmares and wouldn't see another Christopher Lee movie for many years. No matter what his character was in a new film...he was ALWAYS Dracula. (she secretly feared that he would spot her in the audience, and follow her home, and when night fell, he would attack. I'm not kidding.)
I’m 47 years old & to this day Christopher Lee’s Dracula still scares the shit out of me! In all reality, Lee & Peter Cushing were forces of nature as their respected characters & Hammer continues to be for me at least, the gold standard, absolutely love this movie.
@@JohnDoe-yi4xd Jesus…it’s a Dracula film! And Bela is on par with the likes of Christopher Lee and Gary Oldman in regards to this so called over the top style of acting.
The hammer films were the BEST hands down. I LOVE this one ALOT. Peter and chris were the best bar none. Oldie but goodie. Love the old school stuff R I P LEE
It’s funny that Tarkin and Dooku actually met in universe at one point, this scene must’ve had some kind of influence in that book. It’s named “Tarkin” by the way.
RIP and long live Peter Cushing (May 26, 1913 - August 11, 1994), aged 81 And RIP and long live Michael Gough (November 23, 1916 - March 17, 2011), aged 94 And RIP and long live Sir Christopher Lee (May 27, 1922 - June 7, 2015), aged 93 You will always be remembered as legends.
This is my absolute favorite Dracula film made by Hammer Studios. And I love this restored version of the ending. For years, American prints of this film did not have the part where Dracula rakes his fingers over his face which is coming apart. I'm guessing it was too gory for audiences in those days. That part was also cut from the prints shown on television. I've seen this movie a million times and never saw the restored version until a few years ago. Also, if you notice, Christopher Lee slightly mistimed his cue to fall on the floor when Peter Cushing ran across the table to pull the curtains down. Just before Cushing jumps on the curtains to pull them down, Christopher Lee twisted and fell before he's actually hit by the sunlight. His timing was slightly off. It was noted in editing but they chose not to reshoot the scene. I still watch for it every time I see this movie. But regardless of the slight timing error, it is a fantastic movie. Between the story, acting, cinematography, music score, sets -- it is a masterpiece of telling Hammer's version of the story. I've seen the CD version of one of the Dracula movies by Hammer where Christopher Lee narrates the audio track and tells some behind the scenes stories with others. I think it was "Dracula: Prince of Darkness" and he talked about his stunt double and the takes to get the icy ending just right.
i noticed that too and i thought of it as he’s trying to duck for cover after he realizes what’s about to happen but he didn’t have enough time. makes it better than knowing it’s a mistake lmao
A true classic film... 2 great actors. This is a film you can sink your teeth into... This is a full blooded film... This film has heart... Both actors had a stake in this film...
Christopher Lee was my favorite Dracula. I used to love to watch these movies late on Saturday night when they would run them on Creature Features when I was a kid.
When I was younger I associated Peter Cushing with his role as Grand Moff Tarkin in Star Wars so I was used to seeing him be an old dude who stood and sat mostly, so it was really surprising to my young self to see him being so physical in this movie. Like he’s darting all over the place!
Me & my dear old dad, long since gone, used to sit together together to watch these + the older black & white horrors. Many years ago me & my wife popped into a cafe, either Whitstable or Broadstairs, & there sat in the corner was Peter Cushing! Very old & frail but unmistakable. Sadly I missed the opportunity to thank him for all those great films & my precious memories!
On leave from the Death Star. Grand Moff Tarkin has a vacation on the planet known as Earth and soon finds out that the Sith Lord known as Count Dooku who was presumably killed by Anakin Skywalker is still alive and is now an immortal being known as a Vampire plotting to overthrow the Emporer. Realizing the danger Tarkin teams up with a butler named Alfred Pennyworth and together they go out to destroy Count Dooku once and for all.
Chris & Peter, what a great duo. This movie is probably when they both were both in their prime. A timeless classic. The hammer stamp is all over it. Great sets, stirring music score, and glorious Technicolour . If you had seen this in the cinema -as i did - you are very lucky to have been around to have shared that on-screen magic of the great duo.. Timeless forever .. Chris & Peter...
The greatest actors of horror were imho sir Christopher lee, sir Peter Cushing , and the late great king of horror himself Vincent Price. Loved the Hammer films. Loved american International films of Vincent Price too.
that sprint on the table and pulling down of the drapes was ingenious at that time. superb action blended in a chilling hammer flick. that scene was copied by the nexflix dracula serie btw. didn't have the same punch as this one.
@@planetmayhem2012 Is no one going to praise the Hammer orchestra. Also when Chris falls back it's a bit fake because he throws his leg out there on the mark so the sun can hit it.
I was 12years old when I saw this movie in 1960 in Uruguay, Iwas with 3 kids my age back then and after a few scenes we left the theater shaking with fear, I kept at nights remembering the scene when a young vampire woman with long fangs said to a little girl, come with aunt Lucy !!! now I see how young were Peter Cushing and Chrstopher Lee were, they made a lot of sequels but none was as terrifying as this first film
Interesting that we had the same experience but in another part of the world. For me, it was Brooklyn, NY. I was about the same age, with two friends walking to the theater to see this.
@@if6was929 ha ha,we left the theater stiff scared but after a while we mustered up courage and returned to the cinema to see the rest of the movie, naturally it was a subtitled to Spanish copy for we did not have the slightest knowlage of English, by that time Uruguay was the only country in South America with 100% of literacy .in all the countries around the movies were dubbed because half of the population coud not read
One of the best Dracula death scenes from the Hammer movies. I remember this one from childhood. But the leaping onto the curtains... I now know that was a stunt man. Bravo !!!! 😃👍
Christopher Lee was the best Dracula hands down. Every movie made with him was an instant classic. I remember watching these movies as a kid and having nightmares. They scared the crap out of me. The scariest parts of these movies were the scenes in the forest. Too many movies today are nothing but gore and violence.
@@jackleighton1566 I didn't find the IT movies scary at all. I actually found the book quite comical. All that build up to a spider. Was very disappointed.
I remember watching these classic Hammer horror films in the late 80s early 90s usually on Sunday mornings after my dad had recorded them for me to watch from the night before on VHS.
Before 20 years,i had the Luck for meet him personaly here in Luxembourg,i meet him because Christopher Lee was in our Park in Luxembourg with the Border of Germany,luxembourgish Side.I had give him my Hand for meet him and i had see a very fine Gentleman,very friendly ! Best Wishes from Luxembourg ! 🙂
I know that Bela Lugosi is usually the gold standard for the portrayal of Dracula, but I always found Christopher Lee to be a more physically imposing and plain scarier version.
crazy, I remember watching a horror doco on Saturday morning with this scene. Burned into my soul, for some reason I never forgotten it. Good to finally find it again on youtube. That was 25 years ago.
Count Dooku vs Grand Moff Tarkin. Rest in peace to both men.
Kevin Beswick Prequels vs Original
James007HungerZone not fair. I love both.
Joker the Master
Get a life nerd. NEERRRRDD!!!!!!!
Kevin Beswick Christopher Lee was, no doubt, one of the redeeming qualities of the Prequels. But why in the name of all that is good and holy did they let Hayden Christensen kill him?
+John Krameryy
Fun Fact: Christopher Lee originally play for Grand Moff Tarkin in Star Wars but he rejected it which the role gave to Peter Cushing. He later regretted it and he got redeemed when he played Count Dooku in the Prequels years later.
Funny that both actors are real-life best friends.
RIP Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing. ♥️
I prefer that way. Id never would have seen Peter Cushing otherwise.
No one who watches this film for the first time today can understand the wallop it packed when it came out in 1957. There was nothing like it ever see on the screen before, and this scared the daylights out of audiences. REALLY! My brother and I saw it back then and can attest to how powerful and frightening this film was for everybody - teenagers as well as adults. No one expected this kind of film, so well done, in Color too!
My powers have doubled since the last time we met, Count!
Twice the pride, double the fall
Ah yes, the negotiator
@@bulletkin2395 General Kenobi, we’ve been waiting for you.
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@@zakeerizakeer3241 wait what
You want to talk about legends, Sir Christopher Lee, and Peter Cushing. Can't get better than these two boys. Gone too soon, especially Peter.
I totally agree. Both were superb.
I attended a festival screening of this film years ago with Christopher Lee there for a Q and A afterwards. A stately gentleman seated in a plaid fireside smoking chair onstage, he was greeted and applauded like a sports legend. He sat graciously puffing his pipe for the next three minutes waiting for the applause to end. He discussed his beginnings in the business, what a fan he was of Peter Cushing and how Cushing fought to get him the Dracula role. He was Boris Karloff's neighbor! Lastly, an audience member swore he saw a tear streak Dracula's left cheek as Van Helsing forced him back into the sun's rays and asked about it. Lee agreed it was. Dracula crying? Lee attested Dracula was a soul in constant pain not from vampirism but from condemnation to commit compulsive acts that saddened and repulsed him. He finds redemptive qualities in any character he plays. If he didn't, how did Dracula's decaying demise leave some audience members sobbing ( I heard them sniffling too). The effects were state of the art in 1958 and Lee was the first Dracula who showed fangs, blood , and reddened eyes onscreen. He said he couldn't see a thing wearing those red contacts. Landmark shock in those days.
When I was a boy in the 1980s and getting obsessed with Hammer horrors through late-night TV screenings here in UK, my late Mum told me she went to see this film in 1958 (she was aged early 20s at the time) and when Dracula was destroyed at the end, she cried. His demise in this film still carries a powerful charge of horror and tragedy. Lots of ladies in late 1950s fell in love with Christopher Lee's incarnation of Dracula, he stirred lots of forbidden sexy feelings in the buttoned-up 1950s! ❤
Such an incredible duo, Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee
Even more fortunate was Christopher Lee to be in Lord of the Rings after this.
The best ever Dracula films ever in my opinion, loved Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee, when it comes to Van Helsing and Dracula nobody can touch these two actors, period!! 😀 😀
RIP Sir Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing 🙏🙏
Exactly no contest
RIP Peter Cushing (May 26, 1913 - August 11, 1994), aged 81
RIP Michael Gough (November 23, 1916 - March 17, 2011), aged 94
RIP Sir Christopher Lee (May 27, 1922 - June 7, 2015), aged 93
RIP Melissa Stribling (November 7, 1926 - March 22, 1992), aged 65
You will be remembered as legends.
One of my all time favourite scenes. Cushing and Lee were the masters of gothic horror, they’ve never been surpassed!
I love how Dracula was just running away until he was like, “wait, I’m Dracula” and just started fighting.
😠😊
😂😂😂😂😂
It’s so funny reading the comments and seeing how the young look at these two as Star Wars actors playing Dracula and Van Helsing. I saw each Star Wars movie when it first came out and MY thought was “oh look there’s Van Helsing!” and later it was “well there’s Dracula”. I am now 62; I was a big fan of all the Hammer movies starting when I was about 7 and saw Star Wars when I was 15.
SAME!!!
The Hammer Christopher Lee Dracula movies were absolutely outstanding. No one has ever done Dracula better in my opinion..These films were the best gothic horror ever made..
Absolutely, I agree. The production values of these horror films were superb, even though they had a very modest budget.
Christopher Lee & Peter Cushing are legends.
When I was a kid, I only ever knew Peter Cushing as Tarkin. It’s a trip to see him play a hero.
he even played Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Who
He mostly was a good guy. He was also a villain in Madhouse.
He was a villian in Frankenstein
And a villain in Return of the Cybermen , The Avengers 1967 colour season.
Also a hero in the first New Avengers episode: The Eagles 🦅 Nest.
The expression on Peter Cushing's face. God, what a brilliant, complex mixture of horror, pity, and relief. Yes, it's Hammer, yes it's campy, but the acting is head and hands above what you'll see in many straight-up dramas today. I love the fact that Cushing doesn't celebrate, he just seems profoundly sad at the existence of evil in the world. And all of this after a pulse-pounding, intensely cinematic fight scene.
My deepest, heartfelt sympathy to this great artist, Maestro Dracula always remember his films
Drák Preepers HAMMER lol
The best ending to any Dracula ever. That athletic run along the table to dive into the curtains exemplifies the active striking down of the power of evil by intelligence through instant action.
No other Dracula compares to Christopher Lee..R.I.P
Expect bela Lugosi
Lugosi had no fangs in the film nor red eyes. When he was biting, he looked toothless.
@Groovy J nah Lee is King.....
Except Leslie Nilsen
The creativity and ingenuity of the talented people at Hammer is demonstrated here beautifully. The final chase through Dracula's castle utilises only one set, redressed and relit for each shot. One large room with a single staircase.That's all. It also doubles for the cemetery earlier in the movie. Just amazing what they did with very little money.
that moment when Moff Tarkin is chasing count dooku
Cor Tadew that moment when Count Dooku actually had no lightsaber to face Moff Tarkin...
John Mahmud I am bumping this thread for a few moments of silence due to the passing of Sir Christopher Lee.
Cor Tadew that moment when the doctor fights count dooku
Cor Tadew Shame they never encountered one another in the Clone Wars TV show. What a wasted opportunity.
Alex Barnes lol
The Hammer films have stood the test of time because of Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee. Both were fine actors.
Eeheh...in my opinion only the first 2 (second is debatable) hold up well...the others...have poor writing.
RIP to two of the greatest actors who ever lived...
Sworn enemies onscreen but dear friends in real life. You are both missed. Peter Cushing and Sir Christopher Lee.
Dude Cushing does not mess around in an action scene! I get so amped up when he takes off for the curtains!
Same here that was epic
Count Dooku vs Grand Moff Tarkin. The fashion was very attractive I love the coats and suits Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee wore.
And that kids was how Grand Moff Tarkin blasted Count Dooku to dust with a prototype version of the Death Star Laser
R.I.P Sir Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing. Friends reunited at last
Christopher Lee can never die he is count Dracula!
I wonder if they burried him in it? I would want that if I was him.
I guess Anakin is a Human Stake.
Cris P. Bacon fun fact: Christopher Lee, before he magnificently played Count Dooku was almost cast as Tarkin before Peter Cushing got the role
Joseph Higgins animationgamer3466o I heard Bela Lugosi may have been buried with HIS Dracula cape
I really love the music in this scene, it's like a racing heart-beat spliced with 'flight of the bumble-bee', but it just works for how intense the scene is. The music alone never fails to get my heart racing
what a delight to see tarkin and dooku together
Don't forget about Michael Gough: Alfred in the Batman´s 90's movies.
I just read Peter Cushing actually did the leap to the curtains himself to expose Christopher Lee’s Dracula to the sunlight! I was always glad to see Peter Cushing in movies. He was perfect to play Lord Tarkin in Star Wars. Taking movie evil to the next level by ordering the destruction of a planet with its entire population in an explosion!
Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing were beautiful actors. I love their horror of dracula. Thay added charm.
They*
I really appreciate how this built off of the Dracula movies before it. I love the Lugosi version, the Spanish one and Nosferatu but they all had admittedly anti climatic endings with the vampire being killed rather easily. Here it’s a full physical battle between good and evil.
I never got bored with this scene. It's amazing and I'm surprised how good the special effects at that time!
@ayu ayu ??
Love the grainy atmosphere of these classic horrors.....and the music always adds to the terror and menace as the tension builds , and your fears grow......classic storytelling
The dramaticl musical score and dark gothic atmosphere really make this film stand out, it hangs heavily over the film,a real classic that future DRACULA films have tried(and failed!) to live up too.
I definitely choose this over Francis Ford Copola's version.
Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee is like a humanized version of Tom & Jerry, they've been in so many horror movies together as both the hero and the villain. If they ever got their own box set, it would've been labeled, *Man Vs. Boogeyman: The Many Battles of Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee!*
Peter Cushing is the greatest Van Helsing ever no one can top his performance
It is my notion that, no Horror Movie is complete without these two magnificent actors, Sir Peter Cushing and Sir Christopher Lee...they had something about them that made these Hammer Horror movies so likeable!!
They were also very good friends all their lives from those movies onwards.
RIP Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing
Sim grandes atores 😢
The noise of his shoes running on the table and jump is glorious 😂 I absolutely love this classic!!
Forever the best Dracula Sr. Christopher Lee..
My sister was 12 when she saw the B&W version of this film in a neighborhood theatre. She couldn't quit screaming...had nightmares and wouldn't see another Christopher Lee movie for many years. No matter what his character was in a new film...he was ALWAYS Dracula. (she secretly feared that he would spot her in the audience, and follow her home, and when night fell, he would attack. I'm not kidding.)
91% talk about the movie
9% Star Wars vibes
I’m 47 years old & to this day Christopher Lee’s Dracula still scares the shit out of me! In all reality, Lee & Peter Cushing were forces of nature as their respected characters & Hammer continues to be for me at least, the gold standard, absolutely love this movie.
No actor in the history of this horror genre ever,ever, played Dracula better than Christopher Lee, bar none, most terrifying. 🥶
A bit over the top compared to the great Belalagosi.
@@JohnDoe-yi4xd Jesus…it’s a Dracula film! And Bela is on par with the likes of Christopher Lee and Gary Oldman in regards to this so called over the top style of acting.
@@sonofshoenice8010
Christopher Lee is the winner
That jump Peter did to pull down the curtains to defeat Dracula was actually a pretty great jump
A wonderful performance by Christopher and Peter, they are the best iconic macabre actors in the film history.
That was the greatest final scene in Dracula cinematic history!
ESPECIALLY SEEING IT FOR THE FIRST TIME!
☆☆☆☆☆
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The hammer films were the BEST hands down. I LOVE this one ALOT. Peter and chris were the best bar none. Oldie but goodie. Love the old school stuff
R I P LEE
It’s funny that Tarkin and Dooku actually met in universe at one point, this scene must’ve had some kind of influence in that book.
It’s named “Tarkin” by the way.
RIP and long live Peter Cushing (May 26, 1913 - August 11, 1994), aged 81
And
RIP and long live Michael Gough (November 23, 1916 - March 17, 2011), aged 94
And
RIP and long live Sir Christopher Lee (May 27, 1922 - June 7, 2015), aged 93
You will always be remembered as legends.
This is my absolute favorite Dracula film made by Hammer Studios. And I love this restored version of the ending. For years, American prints of this film did not have the part where Dracula rakes his fingers over his face which is coming apart. I'm guessing it was too gory for audiences in those days. That part was also cut from the prints shown on television. I've seen this movie a million times and never saw the restored version until a few years ago.
Also, if you notice, Christopher Lee slightly mistimed his cue to fall on the floor when Peter Cushing ran across the table to pull the curtains down. Just before Cushing jumps on the curtains to pull them down, Christopher Lee twisted and fell before he's actually hit by the sunlight. His timing was slightly off. It was noted in editing but they chose not to reshoot the scene. I still watch for it every time I see this movie. But regardless of the slight timing error, it is a fantastic movie. Between the story, acting, cinematography, music score, sets -- it is a masterpiece of telling Hammer's version of the story.
I've seen the CD version of one of the Dracula movies by Hammer where Christopher Lee narrates the audio track and tells some behind the scenes stories with others. I think it was "Dracula: Prince of Darkness" and he talked about his stunt double and the takes to get the icy ending just right.
agreed...
i noticed that too and i thought of it as he’s trying to duck for cover after he realizes what’s about to happen but he didn’t have enough time. makes it better than knowing it’s a mistake lmao
Lee and Cushing were both incredible in this final (not final) showdown between the blood-thirsty Vampire and the swashbuckling Vampire Slayer!
A true classic film...
2 great actors.
This is a film you can sink your teeth into...
This is a full blooded film...
This film has heart...
Both actors had a stake in this film...
xD
This is a film you can COUNT on...
I love the chase scene through the house, the music and Dracula's flowing cape!
What an incredible music cue. Those drums, horns and strings are sick.
Probably the best ending to any Dracula movie.
Christopher Lee was my favorite Dracula. I used to love to watch these movies late on Saturday night when they would run them on Creature Features when I was a kid.
When I was younger I associated Peter Cushing with his role as Grand Moff Tarkin in Star Wars so I was used to seeing him be an old dude who stood and sat mostly, so it was really surprising to my young self to see him being so physical in this movie. Like he’s darting all over the place!
Me & my dear old dad, long since gone, used to sit together together to watch these + the older black & white horrors. Many years ago me & my wife popped into a cafe, either Whitstable or Broadstairs, & there sat in the corner was Peter Cushing! Very old & frail but unmistakable. Sadly I missed the opportunity to thank him for all those great films & my precious memories!
Rip sir Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing this was the best Dracula ever made two legendary actors together
Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee are two of the greatest horror movie villan and hero ever!
On leave from the Death Star. Grand Moff Tarkin has a vacation on the planet known as Earth and soon finds out that the Sith Lord known as Count Dooku who was presumably killed by Anakin Skywalker is still alive and is now an immortal being known as a Vampire plotting to overthrow the Emporer. Realizing the danger Tarkin teams up with a butler named Alfred Pennyworth and together they go out to destroy Count Dooku once and for all.
Thank you for acknowledging Michael Gough!
This sounds like the average story in Jojo's
Chris & Peter, what a great duo. This movie is probably when they both were both in their prime. A timeless classic. The hammer stamp is all over it. Great sets, stirring music score, and glorious Technicolour . If you had seen this in the cinema -as i did - you are very lucky to have been around to have shared that on-screen magic of the great duo.. Timeless forever .. Chris & Peter...
Love Peter Cushing Chris Lee movies And Horror Of Dracula is my favorite movie they made with eachother !
Same.
Mine has to be curse of Frankenstein it’s a masterpiece
LifeWith ChillWill do you know where to find that on Blu-ray?
Bear 7453 here where I live we have a retro movie and game shop but I would just order it off amazon
LifeWith ChillWill I think I’m going to on dvd ! Anyway I can see it I wanna see it !
That leap through the air to grab the curtains! Epic finale.
When I saw this ending of the movie: I thought it was the coolest ending of any vampire movie!!
these movies are still among the best!
I remember watching this movie as a kid, brings back so many good memories. Can not get better than these 2 great actors
Count Dooku/Saruman, Grand Moff Tarkin and Alfred Pennyworth in the same movie together. My what awesome casting.
Masterpiece... Best dracula and van helsing ever!
Van helsing
@@lamarbrown3531 van helsing is what cushing plays
Hammer had great music and always enjoyed these two terrific actors playing these characters.
Holy frick this is 1958? This looks amazing
Thanks for posting this scene. I remember watching this in the 60's and it's my favorite Dracula movie.
Lee and cushing greatest horror duo ever this is my most fav dracula movie.. Hammer fims rocks...
Best duel performance of these two characters .Lee and Cushing. It doesn't get any bettet....Rest in peace...Both of you.
The greatest actors of horror were imho sir Christopher lee, sir Peter Cushing , and the late great king of horror himself Vincent Price. Loved the Hammer films. Loved american International films of Vincent Price too.
Definitely two very hard acts to follow.Brilliant actors!
R.I.P. Sir Christopher and Peter.
This is still the greatest Dracula film ever made. I can't believe it was made in the 50s.
that sprint on the table and pulling down of the drapes was ingenious at that time. superb action blended in a chilling hammer flick. that scene was copied by the nexflix dracula serie btw. didn't have the same punch as this one.
@@planetmayhem2012 Is no one going to praise the Hammer orchestra. Also when Chris falls back it's a bit fake because he throws his leg out there on the mark so the sun can hit it.
I was 12years old when I saw this movie in 1960 in Uruguay, Iwas with 3 kids my age back then and after a few scenes we left the theater shaking with fear, I kept at nights remembering the scene when a young vampire woman with long fangs said to a little girl, come with aunt Lucy !!! now I see how young were Peter Cushing and Chrstopher Lee were, they made a lot of sequels but none was as terrifying as this first film
"I know somewhere nice and quiet, where we can play."
Interesting that we had the same experience but in another part of the world. For me, it was Brooklyn, NY. I was about the same age, with two friends walking to the theater to see this.
@@if6was929 ha ha,we left the theater stiff scared but after a while we mustered up courage and returned to the cinema to see the rest of the movie, naturally it was a subtitled to Spanish copy for we did not have the slightest knowlage of English, by that time Uruguay was the only country in South America with 100% of literacy .in all the countries around the movies were dubbed because half of the population coud not read
Peter Cushing always get choked by Christopher Lee. That’s funny.😂
The Best of the Best together, in so many classic Film's : Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee such a Legacy !!
One of the best Dracula death scenes from the Hammer movies. I remember this one from childhood. But the leaping onto the curtains... I now know that was a stunt man. Bravo !!!! 😃👍
Ah, the old school scary movies. Brings back great memories.
rest in peace christopher and peter two legends that will live forever
That table/jump scene was badass!
It was borrowed for the new BBC Dracula
Christopher Lee gave me nightmares as the Count. Rest in Peace to Sir Christopher and Peter Cushing.
Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee and Vincent Price! What a great combination of talent and star power!
Happy birthday, Peter Cushing (May 27th, 2021 full moon)
[1913 - 1994]
They paid tribute to the table and jump scene in the new BBC mini series Dracula
IKR, that what I thought when I saw the scene in the BBC mini-series.
This isn’t a tale the Jedi would tell you, but this is how the Clone Wars *actually* ended. The rise of the Empire was purely coincidental.
R.I.P. Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee.
And Michael Gough aka Alfred the butler in the Batman movies of the 80's and 90's.
Christopher Lee was the best Dracula hands down. Every movie made with him was an instant classic. I remember watching these movies as a kid and having nightmares. They scared the crap out of me. The scariest parts of these movies were the scenes in the forest. Too many movies today are nothing but gore and violence.
What about the IT movies?
@@jackleighton1566 I didn't find the IT movies scary at all. I actually found the book quite comical. All that build up to a spider. Was very disappointed.
To this day, probably the best Dracula film ever made. Has to be on most people's top ten list of all-time greatest horror films.
These special effects are even more horrifying than any CGI stuff today. Love old skool horror.
Exactly what I was thinking amazing special effects for the time period!
I remember watching these classic Hammer horror films in the late 80s early 90s usually on Sunday mornings after my dad had recorded them for me to watch from the night before on VHS.
Pete tore down those drapes like a BOSS.
Before 20 years,i had the Luck for meet him personaly here in Luxembourg,i meet him because Christopher Lee was in our Park in Luxembourg with the Border of Germany,luxembourgish Side.I had give him my Hand for meet him and i had see a very fine Gentleman,very friendly ! Best Wishes from Luxembourg ! 🙂
Peter Cushing + Christopher Lee + Terence Fisher : MASTERPIECE.
I know that Bela Lugosi is usually the gold standard for the portrayal of Dracula, but I always found Christopher Lee to be a more physically imposing and plain scarier version.
Same
crazy, I remember watching a horror doco on Saturday morning with this scene. Burned into my soul, for some reason I never forgotten it. Good to finally find it again on youtube. That was 25 years ago.