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Oct 24 11 4:09 PM
cjh5801 wrote:As has been discussed elsewhere, in 1931 Universal ordered that Browning's DRACULA be re-edited just prior to release. The re-edit introduced a number of continuity errors and slowed the second and third acts of the film to a glacial pace. In a viewing of George Melford's Spanish Language version of DRACULA, I noticed that the story flowed much better, but that most of the scenes pretty much duplicated those in Browning's film. They were just in a different order. So I re-cut Browning's version following the template of the Melford film. Later, I obtained a copy of Philip Riley's MagicImage shooting script and discovered that the continuity of my re-cut, and the Melford version, follows the continuity of the script (with a few scenes missing, presumably lost in the studio's re-edit). The re-cut version is still a bit slow in spots (it's a product of its times), but I believe anyone seeing it for the first time will be surprised at how much better it plays than the version we're all familiar with.
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