In a better film such as the kind Universal put out in the Thirties and Forties, Francis Lederer might have made an interesting Count Dracula. He certainly had the old world manners of the no account count from Transylvania.
But in The Return of Dracula where the world's most famous vampire has gone to seek the blood of the new world, Lederer looks extremely uncomfortable trying to make sense of the crummy dialog he has to mouth.
Lederer also has police inspector John Weingraf from Interpol on his trail. The old count's got a taste for young teenage girls as he goes after blind Virginia Vincent and tries to put the bite on Christina Eberhardt, to the chagrin of boyfriend Ray Stricklyn.
He's in southern California, he must like them there wishing they all could be California girls.
I'd go out and hang 10 rather than sit home and watch Dracula return.
But in The Return of Dracula where the world's most famous vampire has gone to seek the blood of the new world, Lederer looks extremely uncomfortable trying to make sense of the crummy dialog he has to mouth.
Lederer also has police inspector John Weingraf from Interpol on his trail. The old count's got a taste for young teenage girls as he goes after blind Virginia Vincent and tries to put the bite on Christina Eberhardt, to the chagrin of boyfriend Ray Stricklyn.
He's in southern California, he must like them there wishing they all could be California girls.
I'd go out and hang 10 rather than sit home and watch Dracula return.