Post by Zone Fighter on Nov 2, 2004 7:54:55 GMT -8
Dracula's Daughter (1936)
Otto Kruger as Dr. Jeffrey Garth
Gloria Holden as Countess Marya Zaleska (Dracula's daughter)
Marguerite Churchill as Janet Blake
Edward Van Sloan as Professor Von Helsing
Gilbert Emery as Sir Basil Humphrey
Irving Pichel as Sandor
This direct sequel to Dracula (1931) isn't nearly as good.
Professor Van Helsing is arrested for murdering Count Dracula. Instead of hiring a lawyer he sends for Dr. Jeffrey Garth, a pyschiatrist who was one of his students. Van Helsing wants Sir Basil Humphrey, head of Scotland Yard to believe that Dracula actually died 500 years before and he did the world a service by destroying the undead monster but never mentions the names of any of the witness to Dracula's evil.
Hungarian Countess steals the body of Count Dracula, and burns it. She hopes her father's death frees her from "the curse of the Draculas" but she still finds herselve thirsting for blood. She actually manages to kill only two people, one man and one woman.
The countess turns to Dr. Garth for help in finding a cure, but then decides that she can't be cured and that she should make him her immortal mate instead, thus angering her servent Sandor, who wanted her to make him a vampire.
Gloria Holden was good Countess Marya Zaleska but the sudden change of mind was too abrupt for me. There should have been more of the servent Sandor, who in my opinion was the real villain as it was he who convinced the countess that Dracula's death did not free her.
Countess Marya Zaleska: Sandor, look at me. What do you see in my eyes?
Sandor: Death.
Otto Kruger as Dr. Jeffrey Garth
Gloria Holden as Countess Marya Zaleska (Dracula's daughter)
Marguerite Churchill as Janet Blake
Edward Van Sloan as Professor Von Helsing
Gilbert Emery as Sir Basil Humphrey
Irving Pichel as Sandor
This direct sequel to Dracula (1931) isn't nearly as good.
Professor Van Helsing is arrested for murdering Count Dracula. Instead of hiring a lawyer he sends for Dr. Jeffrey Garth, a pyschiatrist who was one of his students. Van Helsing wants Sir Basil Humphrey, head of Scotland Yard to believe that Dracula actually died 500 years before and he did the world a service by destroying the undead monster but never mentions the names of any of the witness to Dracula's evil.
Hungarian Countess steals the body of Count Dracula, and burns it. She hopes her father's death frees her from "the curse of the Draculas" but she still finds herselve thirsting for blood. She actually manages to kill only two people, one man and one woman.
The countess turns to Dr. Garth for help in finding a cure, but then decides that she can't be cured and that she should make him her immortal mate instead, thus angering her servent Sandor, who wanted her to make him a vampire.
Gloria Holden was good Countess Marya Zaleska but the sudden change of mind was too abrupt for me. There should have been more of the servent Sandor, who in my opinion was the real villain as it was he who convinced the countess that Dracula's death did not free her.
Countess Marya Zaleska: Sandor, look at me. What do you see in my eyes?
Sandor: Death.
